While my daughter was home on Christmas break, she called me out for what she referred to as “My Clutter Shuffling”. She is at that age, in her mid twenties, where she feels the need to point out what I am obviously, to her, doing wrong. This is a different approach than when she wasContinue reading “Clutter Shuffle”
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Three Day Minimum
My best friend growing up in Texas was Karen. She lived two doors down from us, and our home lives could not have been any more different. I was number seven of eight kids in a big Irish Catholic family. My sisters and brothers ranged from their twenties to a two year old, my babyContinue reading “Three Day Minimum”
Seek and Find
The first back porch that I remember was a 10 x 10 concrete slab off the back of our house in Naperville, Illinois. It was tucked into the corner where the kitchen met the family room and looked out over the lawn and the cornfields beyond. Our neighborhood did not have fences. Our yard stretchedContinue reading “Seek and Find”
The View from my Back Porch 