Facing Down Dust Bunnies and Other Beasts

It started innocently enough. I knocked a saucer off the kitchen counter and onto the floor where it broke into four pieces, the first two landing at my feet, the third commandeered by my cat as a toy and the fourth missing in action. I looked all over the kitchen for that final piece, crawling […]

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The First Principles of Laundry: Part Two

Here are the final six First Principles from my new book. Thanks to Keesha Freskiw for her sweet illustrations. Picking up from last week, these are a few ideas to smooth the wrinkles in your laundry path: 6.     Check the care label. Care labels are to clothes what the owner’s manual is to your car. […]

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A Short Excerpt from The Laundry List

I finally handed off the manuscript for my first book to the publisher. To celebrate, I am posting a short excerpt here on TIGA. I wrote this book for my daughter, Lindsay, in celebration of her graduation from high school. It’s called The Laundry List: All the things I forgot to tell you about laundry and […]

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My Own Best Teacher

I’ve been restless lately, feeling stuck and dissatisfied, treading, yet again, on paths of depression worn so well in my mind that they’re seemingly permanent. My determination to re-route these paths, though – to create beautiful new neural pathways as my friend Sue puts it – is just as persistent. So yesterday, in an attempt […]

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Clean Sweep, Fresh Start

Long time, no post. Maybe it is time to come back? I am, after all, in the midst of a re-shaping of my household, routing things out, re-arranging, de-cluttering, cleaning, reconsidering it all…. My husband and younger daughter are in Kentucky, watching the World Equestrian Championships an event that takes place only every four years. World […]

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