The ONE Biggest Mistake
You don’t have to take down a wall to see radical improvement in your interior design. Just start with the simple stuff!
psychology
How To Avoid Being Swallowed
It’s impossible to overstate how big an effect your environment has on your nervous system. Living in urban environments, it’s easy to forget that human beings evolved, literally, in nature. Our nervous systems are attuned to cues that have been in place for millions of years–when to wake up (light gets […]
Decluttering Your Mind
This week I went on a decluttering tear. Sorting paperwork became two days of cleaning, purging, reorganizing, repairing, maintaining and rethinking systems. Frankly, it felt at the time like procrastination. Surely I should have been working on my business? But as soon as I went back to ‘work,’ my […]
Sustainability: It’s Your Health
TW: language, family dysfunction When we first moved to Philadelphia, I committed two terrible sins. Arriving in the South Philly home of my mother-in-law, where residents cut down street trees because they are “messy,” I 1) opened the blinds, and 2) bought plants for the front windows. Later, after the storm of […]