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Just read a terrific New York Times article about the effect heirlooms have on on our lives entitled “How to Lose a Legacy” by Ellen Lupton. Humorous, colorful, timely – this article [...]

Try this experiment: Watch the 3-minute video below and see if adopting a simple daily practice in home tending doesn’t help bring new energy into your home and  life. Even better: Set an [...]

“Respond to every call that excites your spirit” -Rumi You’ve probably seen my emails or notices about a contest I’ve entered. The opportunity to participate was announced [...]

“Nothing that you want is upstream….The stream of well-being is a powerful stream… When your stream is moving fast, and you’re not flowing with it, it’s beating you [...]

This is the last in a series of posts* on reinventing ourselves, excerpted from Your Spacious Self. Enjoy!   Quitting the career and job that defined me for two decades detailed in the last [...]

This is the continuation of my previous post: “Stepping Out of Comfort into Not-Knowing,”  which tells the story of how and why I quit a successful teaching career of twenty years – [...]

“There is a grief that occurs when who you thought you were begins to disappear.” – Ram Dass As I prepare to pitch my book and my message in a bigger way, I’m being reminded of [...]

“I want to shed my waste with quiet reverence like the pine… Keep me mindful of what I take into my home, the items brought to substitute for real living…Help me slowly to surrender all excess.” [...]

I was invited to clear an apartment recently belonging to woman who had suffered and died of ovarian cancer. The two women handling her estate called me in because they felt that the space did [...]

Our beloved refrigerator leaves us today. I can hear her humming away in the other room – as she has for 25 years – oblivious to her fate. It’s like we’re putting her down. We bought [...]