Romancing Your Rooms – February 2012 Newsletter

I’ve always been fascinated with the way space feels, and this is why I love working with people in their room, closets and file cabinets. Space invites and teases and opens its arms. It also can go cold and forbidding, hiding things or restricting movement.   This abiding flirtation with hallways and even public spaces [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Seasonal Transitions: November 2009 Newsletter

Welcome once again to dusky late afternoons, and drifting leaves. At a recent event up in the foothills of the Cascades I was treated to a sight I have never seen before. The early morning clouds were moving through the valley and hanging just below the crests of the hills. Beyond them the peaks receded [...]