Inspiration

If travel is inspiration, then a recent visit to Germany is a great way to call attention to another culture and their organizing habits.   Everything in Germany is organized.   Everything.   The sidewalks are clearly divided into lanes for bicycles and an adjacent... Read more

The Lessons of Simplicity

Recently, I spent some time in Amish country.   Lancaster, Pennsylvania boasts America’s oldest Amish settlement, where thousands still live a very simple life, as they have for the last 300 years.   The Amish have a penchant for organization, as their... Read more

Less is More

I really do believe that less is  more.   The less ‘stuff’ we have, the less we have to maintain and hopefully, the less we have to do each day.   In the book The Power of Less, author Leo Babauta mentions the form of Japanese poetry known as haiku, that... Read more