A Closet That Fits

I’ve started doing this year long course on Daily Om called A Year to Clear What is Holding You Back. I’m on Day 27 of the curriculum and mostly so far it has been about awareness and feelings, not about doing anything physically to clear clutter, stacks of papers, or cleaning out closets or anything.…

Surviving the Holidays

If being with your family makes you want to crawl into a punch bowl full of spiked egg nog and stay there until New Year’s – let’s talk about what to do, how to cope, and how to make it through the holidays without committing murder. I personally love to be with my family (at…

Christmas Shopping Strategies

Shopping seems easy enough; go into a store, find something your friend would like, and buy it… That works most of the time but shopping at Christmas can be a joyous occasion or it can be a nightmare! Employing a few tried and true shopping strategies can make shopping easier during the holidays. Doing these…

(Sometimes) Holiday Traditions

Each year I like to try out something new around the holidays and see if it is something we would like to do again the next year and develop it into a new holiday tradition. The Great Dickens Christmas Fair – We went to the Dickens Fair a few years ago and brought all the…