Summer can be a fun season with all the events, activities, mini-vacations and days in the sun. But for someone like me who lives a healthier, more productive and creative life when I follow a routine, summer can easily throw me off my game. It's not that I want every single day to be the … Continue reading Minimal Monday
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Minimal Monday
My very first memory of sugar is of being about three and a half years old and finding an open jar of butterscotch sauce in my family’s refrigerator. Where was the lid? What luck! I don’t recall any other time of helping myself to the fridge at such a young age, but on this day, … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
Last night I had the great pleasure of attending a James Taylor concert at the beautiful Tanglewood outdoor music venue in Lenox, Massachusetts. He put on a great show, and so did my adorable four-year-old twin granddaughters who got to stay up way past their bedtime. By the time the concert began, we had already … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
Linda Cliatt-Wayman is a successful leader in education and is powered by her belief in the potential of all children. Her love, passion and unwavering focus on improving the future of children living in poverty is admirable and inspiring. I am not sure how I missed her acclaimed Ted Talk in 2015, but I am … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
I want to pivot back to the kitchen today and express my love for a clean and organized refrigerator. I know it may sound trivial to some, but if it is true that "how we do one thing is how we do everything", then I declare our kitchen habits are important. A simple way to … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
I invite you to try on this belief: Your best, most authentic life and Self are lurking just beneath the clutter and baggage. If that is true, what is one thing you could do today to excavate what is buried? It could be something big or small; give something away, delegate a task, clear out … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
It is amazing to me how our attitude about time can actually change our experience of time. In his book The Big Leap, psychologist and author Gay Hendricks writes that “Time feels like an ever-present entity, hovering in the background of our lives.” But to expand time, he explains, we simply need to bring our … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
My husband and I are helping to move our youngest daughter out of one apartment and into another. Due to the nature of medical school, and now residency, this will be her fourth move in four years. Moving is a lot of work and the more stuff there is to move, the harder it is. … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
I think that as humans we are more willing to change something when it becomes too uncomfortable not to. This could be a habit, a relationship, an occupation; anything we have accepted as 'good enough' in the past. Signs will have been there, perhaps for a long time, that something is amiss, inauthentic, or just … Continue reading Minimal Monday
Minimal Monday
I have been very fortunate in motherhood with three wonderful, grown daughters whom I adore. Mother's Day is a happy, celebratory occasion for me. But last night as I was going to bed, I was thinking of all the moms who have been alienated from their children after a contentious divorce, as my mother had … Continue reading Minimal Monday
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