Most normal people prefer to eat produce that is ripe (I am not most people, and so I promptly put my peaches in the fridge in the hopes of paralyzing the ripening process, therefore prolonging the peach's apple-like crunch). In order for the produce to reach optimal ripeness, those normal people will store produce at room temperature. (There is also the case of fruits and veggies which aren't meant to be stored in the fridge, ...

By now we should all be well aware of the fact that there is no scale when it comes to clutter-- clutter is clutter is clutter, meaning that regardless of what form it comes in, it weighs on us equally, and equally distracts and complicates our daily lives. With the burgeoning of apps and increasingly developed technologies, our smartphones can now play host to a multitude of virtual clutter. I recently conducted an iPhone decluttering ...

My dad, the psychologist, readily reminds me of the fact that there's an epidemic among the female sector of our society, and I have no trouble admitting he's right. Much as we seem to have advanced women out of the proverbial kitchen and into the realm of the power players, the movers and the shakers, we, as the female population, undeniably retain some of the essence of that perpetually smiling, ever-accommodating, self-sacrificing, everything-is-fine (-even-though-everything's-obviously-not) 50's ...

If we knew each other in real life I would say, "Hey, let's go to my beach house together this weekend!" Or more likely I would say, "Hey, let's go tresspassing together this weekend! To this house I saw designed by Tim Clarke Design! Maybe we can convince the homeowners a befuddled realtor offered their home up as part of a time share without their knowledge and we-lucky us--we swooped right in and scooped it ...

You know those emboldened bloggers who try their hand at all things, including cooking, entertaining, crafting, and hot glueing dried up Twizzlers around the rim of plates as place settings and about whom you cannot help but think: I can see you are able to Do that Yourself, the quandary remains as to why you would-? Yeah, well Erin of House of Earnest isn't like that. In fact, you'd be hard pressed to locate another site so ...