I know, I get it; life is so busy! Hectic! Full of errands and carpool and Walgreens commercials on Spotify! Next to your energy level, the item that takes the brunt of it most is your bag. Man or woman, handbag or business satchel, our bags are our home-away-from-homes. They're the place we put all the things that aren't the ones we put in the house because we need them whilst away from it. It ...

Regardless of the situation, the ways in which they become (or we perceive them to be) complex are much the same. Combined with the hustle of everyday life, problems or scenarios that in their essence aren't all that complicated far too easily get amplified, exaggerated, dramatized, and overwhelming. Consider these five steps your blueprint for Simplifying any situation. 1. Eliminate the extraneous and be still  Your first order of business is to remove all unnecessary ...

Admittedly this favorites roundup is a bit on the random/scant side, but there it is: these post things are authentic and I won't go calling something a favorite if it wasn't and that's the banana line. (Just checking to see if you were paying attention.) Also is the fact that a few of these products are not quite the literal definition of "organizing" ones, but rather more loosely of the lifestyle variety--the Live Simply lifestyle. ...

Everything in this world has its place. Each element serves as context for something else, and without each and every one we would be left unable to decipher the value or meaning of any. We know by contrast. There is one of the most fundamental human truths. We know depression from contentment because we've experienced, or witnessed, both states. We recognize summer from winter because we've lived through, or seen evidence of, both seasons. We ...

Taking us into the (almost) weekend this week is the work of BGDB Interior Design, a firm whose name makes you wonder you've gotten it right, but whose portfolio leaves no question of whether they have. Tell me about it, they should totally hire me to do their next marketing campaign, right? Breeze, founder and lead designer over at BGDB, creates spaces that are decidedly classic in feel (some more so than others), coupled with ...