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The summer camp my kids attend happens to be tucked into one of the fanciest areas of our city. Each morning we pass huge, beautiful, sprawling houses. One particular morning, the kids and I began discussing the houses. “Why can’t we have a house like that?” My daughter asked. I replied, “We don’t need that […]

I started this course to learn an organized system to declutter. After donations were banned during the pandemic, I realized I tend to hang on to many things due to sentimental reasons or because it may be useful later for a project when I have more time. But my clutter and all these unfinished projects […]

It appears as if the world has woken up from its pandemic slumber. A few months ago the streets were empty. However, today, in my neighborhood, the restaurants have their windows and doors wide open and appear to be full of mostly happy, young, and vibrant people, excitedly reuniting with one another. While acknowledging the […]

Fear. It raises your heartbeat, roils your stomach, it might even make your hands shake. Fear is not just stressful, it’s limiting. When I fear something new, something I don’t know how to do, a difficult decision – I just want to turn away from it. I want to do anything else but deal with […]

Eckhart Tolle, in A New Earth, discusses that whether we are aware of it or not there is a constant flow of thoughts streaming through our mind. These thoughts projected out into the world on a speaker would sound insane. A jumble of words that may or may not make sense filling our brain. We […]

Whenever I hear that song by Coldplay, “Just Like This,” it makes me smile and think. (And dance). How many times do I long for something more? How many times do I expect superhero perfection from my loved ones? What if instead of looking out and wanting something like that, I looked in and said, […]

The summer sun is blazing and it’s another humid day in Virginia. I see a few pairs of shorts in my drawer, but I pick a pair of cropped pants again. The shorts are too tight on me, but they’ll fit me next year. Right? I step outside to do some weeding in the front […]

To paraphrase Joshua Fields Millburn “Passion isn’t followed, it’s cultivated.” Wow. I never thought about it like that before. I always considered passion to be all-consuming. Something that I just HAVE to do, forsaking all else. But in his book, Everything That Remains, Millburn suggests that passion is a choice. We choose to cultivate our […]