When Value Costs Too Much – November Newsletter 2011

  The jet lag is fading and life slowly resumes its normal shape.     My month long trip to Australia was an exciting and fulfilling adventure with old friends and new, exotic birds and animals, and driving on the other side of the road. Adapting to vehicles coming at me on the right was [...]

Life Skills We Hate

There are other things that we love to avoid! One of them is really a basic life skill that few of us were really taught as kids or even young adults. Taking care of financial paper and filing in general. Sorry. You can use a body double for these tasks, but my tip for the [...]

Personal Organizing and Clutter Clearing – Bellevue College

2 Thursdays  August 2012, the 2nd and 9th  7:00PM – 8:30PM Find that letter, reclaim the counter tops and feel at home in your world! Come and create strategies for change and discuss concrete methods for tacking clutter and chaos. Learn clutter clearing and simple organizing principles to help you break old patterns, learn new [...]

What is in the Way – November 2010 Newsletter

Just before the clock “falls back” I like to take a moment to enjoy the daylight at about 5:30PM. There is something magical about the low angle of the light at this particular season, and soon I know the hours will be compressed into our short Northwest winter days. But how much will that compression [...]

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 [...]

Being Rapt: Leading a Focused Life – July 2010 Newsletter

Lucky for me and my occasional writers block I have a handy list of “Promotional Events” and topics for each month. For July, beyond the obvious cause for explosions and picnics we are invited to celebrate,”National Cell Phone Courtesy Month”. I wonder why the date for the hands free phone law wasn’t delayed just a [...]

Travel Research – Newsletter Excerpt

Researching the Details: Books and Maps: Travel books and maps seem to find their way to my shelves long before I can actually schedule the visit. They often form the inspiration for the whole adventure. At other times I find myself acquiring them in order to learn more about a place or just get into [...]

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 [...]

Travel Planning – May 2010 Newletter

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 to [...]

Aligning Inside with Outside: Personal Organizing and Clutter Clearing

Learn to create an environment that truly supports your life! What do you live with, and why. Everything should say: Yes! This is me, I am home. Rebecca Ross blends practical organizing skills, warmth and humor to create functional spaces. As an architect and meditator she balances energy and stillness in body, mind and surroundings. [...]

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