All manner of timeliness and tardiness boils down to one key, distinguishing factor: being realistic about how long things take you. The difference between those who are always timely and those who are chronically late is that the former possesses clarity about how long things take them, while the latter does not. The knowledge of how long things actually take allows one to both allocate the necessary amount of time to prepare for an event, ...

The grocery store is an apt metaphor when it comes to the rotation of stuff within your home (do note that it's much less about the amount of stuff that a grocery store possesses than the way in which they're managed). New stock is always placed not at the front of aisles, nor the tops of produce piles, but at the backs and bottoms. If grocers replenished goods from the top down, the result would ...

People's stuff tells stories. Buried away in boxes, tucked away in drawers, hanging quietly in closets, these things reveal hidden secrets; within them are tales of lives once lived, of lives that never will come to be, of shame and guilt and sadness. They are the presence and proof of the internal strife that has been being waged. When you are a person whose job it is to go through people's stuff, you inadvertently become ...

I found today's designer through Instagram, which just goes to show: social media, you know? I was instantly smitten with her miniature pictures feed, and upon visiting her website, I found that Shea McGee Design's portfolio-sized images were just as splendiferous (there's a word that's fallen out of rotation, if it was ever in, eh?). Her work is part classical, part glamorous, part nautical even. It's like a whole recipe that ultimately yields some dang good ...

Back when I was in France, I happened upon this impossibly chic little jewelry store. What made it so wasn't the jewelry, particularly, between you and me, but the method of display. The most streamlined glass boxes populated every surface, and inside lay the goods. It was a classic case of the French exhibiting, once again, just how little they need to purposefully aim for la mode, since the mode for them is something rather more ...