Personal Organizing in Edmonds

Edmonds ArtsNow 2 part Organizing class at the Edmonds Community College ArtsNow Department. Call for Information (425) 640-1243 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting (425) 640-1243 end_of_the_skype_highlighting Winter Session: 2 Thursday Evening Sessions  – $49 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. June 2nd and 9th, 2011 Register Here

Hope for Hoarding

Last August I had the honor of meeting Debbie Fleming, a person ready to change her life. She was selected by TLC’s show, Hoarding: Buried Alive for an episode showcasing her story. I was offered the role of her professional organizer and along with Dr. Travis Osbourn we supported Debbie in beginning to turn things [...]

An Experience with Identity

Many thanks to a long time client of mine who recently shared this thoughtful description of her de-cluttering experience: I’ve been doing de-cluttering and re-organizing all year, but just today I started a project I had been putting off for a long time. There is a 4-drawer file cabinet out in my garage that is [...]

Planning a Trip: Newsletter Exerpt

Deciding on a trip is the moment it starts for me. The process has so many layers that beginning to write about it makes me think I have to go lie down a while. Don’t get me wrong  – not because it’s daunting! The prospect of planning a trip is totally thrilling and I have [...]

“Reactionary Workflow” – Ideas for Breaking the Pattern

Where do you really draw the line on your “to do” list? Some of the things we assign ourselves really are necessary; get our teeth cleaned, answer the jury duty summons, pick up the kids. Another category might be negotiable, and yet another list usually contains all those things we actually WANT to do. And [...]

Keeping Up While Fending off Overwhelm

It’s like flossing your teeth…. a job that never really ends. So how can you figure out how to manage it without making it a big deal?

Seasonal Transitions

The camellias are out in full force and I am putting the blossoms into bowls of water while they are still lovely and tender. As a plant, they are not my favorites, seeming to go downhill rather fast, but at THIS moment they hover just outside my window above the desk, deep pink against the [...]

Distill Your Life: Downsizing as Adventure

The prospect of downsizing and preparing to settle into a new community can be both exciting and daunting. It can be exciting as a threshold into a new sense of security and freedom and also daunting as the accumulation of decades must be addressed and evaluated. As we approach this transition it is important to [...]

Get UnStuck: January 2010 Newsletter

The reviews of 2009 are rolling in some want to remind us of the positive while others focus on the bad, bad, bad. The articles I read seem to swing back and forth between attitudes of deep gloom and determined optimism. I wonder if it might be more functional to stand somewhere in the middle. [...]

Sorting it All Out: August 2009 Newsletter

Greetings from The Composed Domain Since we are having a nice lull in the hot weather I’ll settle down here at the laptop and share some news and ideas for the change in season ahead. Most of us can relate to the idea of reducing clutter, streamlining our schedules and getting to that point where [...]

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