Every home should, in my humble opinion, be equipped with a tool kit. Whether or not you actually know what in the hell to do with those tools is rather outside my realm of jurisdiction, but perhaps you should see someone about that. I find myself reaching for various tools quite often, and not just for the occasional home improvement project. How else but with a wrench am I to open that vacuum-sealed jar that, despite several fervent ...

Oh, chickies. Things are about to get gritty today. It pains me to have to be the one to inform you that you are currently carrying around a hot little cluster of bacteria. You're taking it with you in the car, in public bathrooms, in the gym, in the mall. Totin' around a ton of germs. It's your handbags, dears, and they're dirty, real dirty. How dirty? Read on. Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs decided to ...

Today is Monday, despite how discombobulated we may all be from last week's midweek celebration. And today we're meditating on The Next Two Hundred. I was recently having a conversation with a couple of very dear friends-- one bitty o' mine happens to be perplexed about her next life move-- and the three of us sat in the corner of a charming cafe, drinking iced coffee and weighing endless lists of pro's and con's. And somewhere ...

It's Friday panda bears! In an effort to maintain the wonder-factor that is this beginning-of-the-weekend-day, I give you: Ballard Designs. This company has been killin' it for me lately. Their merchandise strikes the perfect balance between polished and earthen, between clean and crisp and I just pulled this out of a dumpster, between- well, you get the picture. Perhaps "unobtrusive" isn't the adjective that home decor companies are striving for, but I must award that word ...

Today I'm back with another special de-cluttering edition of Live Simply. As I've alluded in previous posts, (Too Much of a Good Thing: Supply Smackdown Edition and Writing the Wrongs: De-Cluttering Pens and Pencils) there are certain items which have a higher than normal propensity to become sources of clutter. Today we broach the subject of vases. Most people will have whole cupboards full of flower vases. Crammed onto shelves in no particular order are ...