Self-care is vital to wellbeing. You cannot expect anyone else to be able to care for you in precisely the way you need at any given moment because no one else knows what it feels like to be in your body. Only you can know what you need to be your best self, be it food, exercise, or any source of emotional fulfillment. You must be kind to yourself and in tune with your whole ...

Today I'm treating your eyeballs to the work of House Of Jade Interiors--a design firm based in Utah which I stumbled upon through instagram (where else no question mark). Owners Kirsten and Erin are real life BFFs turned design business partners. Interior design, itself, requires a unique kind of tact. That these ladies can rock that whole situation and successfully merge a friendship with a business relationship--I mean, I'd say anyone that's benefitting from their ...

There are many categories of things that most people are completely baffled about how to Simplify. Here's another one: gift cards and gift certificates. These would-be-cash cards float around people's drawers, home offices, wallets; they get crammed into card holders, and that abandoned in a handbag, now retired in favor of a newer, fancier bag. They stack up and are gathered up and then recede into the abyss of household storage areas once again. And ...

Today I'm doing something I don't think I've ever done in all my years of blogging, and that's to spotlight not a small grouping of organizing products, but a manufacturer of many organizing products. I know, big deal. Big time seal of approval. I've had several requests as of late for more general product recommendations; less "which bin should I buy?" and more "Which brand do you trust that I could safely buy any product from ...

When you find yourself having made a giant mistake-- When you find yourself at the receiving end of someone else's careless oversight-- When you feel like you're so deep in the thick of it, and the thick of it is a pile of shit-- Then, you may find the temptation to give in to self-pity, self-punishment, blame or victimization is extreme. But before you start the indulgent process of licking your wounds-- Before you take on the combative ...