Category: living fully

When Home Staging gets Personal

When Home Staging gets Personal

What if you suddenly walked out of your home, never to return? What would your loved ones find? I’m regularly speaking to baby boomer clients about all their stuff, and what in the world to do with it? We were endowed with rare treasures from our parents and grandparents. Chosen to be caretakers of priceless antiques. “Keep these pieces in our family,” they said. I’m constantly saying to my clients and to myself, “Stuff is only (monetarily) worth what someone is willing to pay for it.”

The Making of a Friend

The Making of a Friend

Looking back I realize I trudged through lots of very hard situations by myself. There were times I would have benefitted from just hearing a voice on the other end of the phone.

Why even get organized?

Why even get organized?

Being “organized” isn’t an end in itself. It’s a foundation to the life we want to live in our homes and lives.

Message From a Park Bench

Message From a Park Bench

Living in the present moment is what I’m guessing she’d encourage me to do. Not wasting a precious minute on things I can’t control or that don’t really matter. My thoughts of her spur me on to be grateful.