The Pareto Principle states that “for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes”. In terms of simplifying, this means that you spend 80% of your time dealing with 20% of your stuff. I figure that the 20% of my […]

Minimalism and green living go together like peanut butter and jelly. In fact, the mindfulness of a minimalist lifestyle leads to less waste, less purchasing of mass-produced goods (often generated by destructive manufacturing practices), and less stuff ending up in a landfill. However, if like […]

This post was originally published January 19, 2015. This weekend, we went visit my parents in East Tennessee. My dad retired from Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and they live just outside the Oak Ridge city limits. Now, as you may recall from previous posts, Oak […]

This post was originally published January 9, 2015. The new year is just over a week old, and I return to work on Monday. I have been on vacation since January 1. I like to take time off the first week of the new year, […]

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 […]