This post was originally published December 11, 2014. Last Friday night, we decided to have spaghetti for dinner, so I volunteered to cook (yes – I define boiling water as cooking!). While I was in the kitchen waiting for the water to boil, I decided […]

This post was originally published December 4, 2014. Considering that I have not had a lot of time to declutter lately, what with the mad end-of-semester push for both my husband and daughter, I feel like it has been a fairly successful week. I have […]

This post was originally published November 28, 2014. I just wanted to share a picture of our dining room table. We decluttered it yesterday for Thanksgiving, and actually had a meal at the table! The only thing left from the piles of junk mail, magazines, […]

This post was originally published November 24, 2014. Tonight, we had pasta for dinner. In the time it took for the water to come to a boil, and then for the pasta to cook, I went through the cabinet above the kitchen sink where we […]

This post was originally published November 23, 2014. Today was a lovely restful Sunday. I had coffee while I read and caught up on my minimalist blogs. It was raining and gray outside, though thankfully not as cold as it has been. After breakfast and […]

This post was originally published November 22, 2014. We have done very little renovating or minimizing over the past couple of months. Last spring, I competed in the Cherry Blossom Ten Mile Run in Washington, D.C. About a week later, in a residual runner’s high, […]