There are probably three thousand and one small things in your space right now, and that's a moderate estimation. These belongings taken singularly seem harmless, of course. What notable stress can the label and lid of a spice jar possible induce? None, perhaps, on its own. But when combined with a dozen or more other spice jars, and those combined with seventy hardback books, and those with six boxes of cereal, with two types of ...

Spring has sprung, may apparently happened, and now here we are in the beginning of June, also known as The Best Time To Tackle Your Garage If You Haven't Already. The small humans will be in and out of there, rifling for sports equipment and bicycles, yard work and all the related tools are once again a thing, as are family trips. You need a functional garage set up to sustain all that activity. In ...

Hills and valleys. Ebbs and flows. Peaks and troughs. Our lives are not a straight shot. They are not just the steady incline to a climax or the gradual descent into a craggy trench. They are always both of these things for as long as we live. It doesn't matter where we are or how far we've come; none of us is exempt from the constant balancing of the universal scales. We don't outgrow the nature ...

If we could build the perfect room from scratch, what would it look like? What features would it contain? Let’s have ourselves a little daydream… A while ago (which can ostensibly mean any amount of time, but in this case means three years and three-ish days) I wrote about the imagined glory of swing-out backsplash windows. Everyone agreed that the feature more than qualified for our ongoing ideal home design list, by which I mean ...

There are plenty of people who have an awareness of the fact that they're living with some amount of clutter, and that, in their daily lives, they experience some amount of stress as result. But that awareness, itself, may not be enough to motivate them to Live Simply. No, for that they need to harness the power of the facts. They need to ask themselves the hard questions and be ready enough to face the truth ...