Two weeks ago, a woman posted a video to her instagram account that has since gotten over half a million views. In the video, a yogi, clothed head to toe in white, completes her daily practice. She's excellent at yoga, but that isn't the reason for the video's popularity. It is the shock of a red blotch between two white-clad legs that's caused this video to be so widely spread around. Let's put it in ...

Colors are as subjective as the people who perceive them. One woman's spirit hue is another's worst nightmare--isn't that how the saying goes? But there is one exception to the rule of colors lacking universal appeal or effect: experts say that yellow is a unilaterally happy color. Across the board, and far more so than any other hue, yellow makes people feel happy. And since we here at Live Simply believe that home should, in ...

A couple of weeks ago, I had a first session with a couple who is expecting their second baby very soon (within a matter of days, now). They were adorably excited to be working with me, and both relieved themselves of other commitments in order to be involved; the husband had come home from work early, while his wife had ensured their nanny could be on duty to care for their toddler. After a tiring ...

Habits and routines naturally vary by person and by family, meaning that few items are necessary across the board. A solution that's essential for one household may be irrelevant for another. For a busy family, a sorted hamper is practically a requirement. I prescribe them with a frequency unrivaled by many other organizational elements. Why? It doesn't matter how devoted one is to the doing of one's laundry; it's bound to accumulate at least slightly, ...

There are lessons in life that come to us in the form of broad, vague abstractions, and there are those that are of the acute variety. While skiing recently, I experienced the latter sort, the kind that hits you over the head with its significance. Duh, it seems to say. You getting this? I love skiing. No matter that I absolutely refused to strap on a pair of skis during multiple family ski trips taken ...