Okay, first, true confessions– I LOVE Taylor Swift’s new album, 1989. I’ve been thinking a lot about blank space. (And I’ll write your name!) You see, in my quest to make The Queen Sweep ever better, I’ve been reading this delightful and EXCEEDINGLY ODD little book called The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up. It’s by Mari Kondo, a […]

I said goodbye to a part of my life last week.   And I felt really, really sad. I went through my closet and pulled out a whole Ikea bag full of clothes.  Anything that doesn’t fit, that I don’t actually wear– yanked.  Anything that pinches, or sags, or doesn’t make me feel pretty– pulled. Then […]

So…I got a little nutso about my daughter’s room.   We moved into our new place about a month ago, and getting my daughter’s room set up was at the top of my priority list. This is partly because I’m such an amaaaazing mom and everyone knows kids need stability and consistency and nesting and lots of strawberries. But if I’m […]

I was trying to stuff just ONE MORE THING into the compost bucket the other day, and guess what happened? The special expensive organic sustainably-raised acorn-fed compost bag ripped.   (Side note: in Secret Mystics we talk about sending energy down into the earth so that we don’t have to carry it around, and one of the mystics said […]

The first knuckle on my left hand and foot have been hurting.   I am THIS close to googling “arthritis” and scaring the crap out of myself. But I was on the phone the other day with a wise friend, and I happened to mention it. BIG MISTAKE. That friend’s a coach, damn her, so she said, […]