Something to read with your coffee.
For years I wrote a monthly journal about homes, habits and how to live. This is that journal, picked up again and rewritten for life after 50.
Short pieces. No homework. Read one and get on with your morning.
The First 21 Minutes.
Seven mornings. Seven minutes to move, seven for your mind, seven for what matters. One short email each morning for a week.
For a long time the bedroom held everything. Laundry waiting to be folded. A child who had a bad dream. School photos on the dresser. After 50, with the house quieter, it...
Walk around your house and look at the walls as if you were a guest. What do they say about the person who lives here?
In feng shui the art in your home is said to speak ...
A lot of people believe they cannot be happy until the house changes. Redecorate. Renovate. Buy better furniture. Or sell up and start again somewhere with more light. Ha...
Feng shui is easy to get excited about, and most of the mistakes people make come straight from that excitement. These are the ten I would warn anyone about before they m...
People used to ask me whether feng shui could work miracles. It is a fair question. You move a plant, hang a wind chime, paint the front door, and someone you know swears...
First impressions count, and it is often said that buyers decide in the first fifteen seconds whether they like a house. You do not have to believe in feng shui to use it...
In feng shui the front door is called the mouth of chi. Chi is the old word for the energy that moves through a place, and the front door is where most of it comes in. Wh...
In feng shui, colour is energy. The tradition says the colours we wear and the colours we live with all affect how we feel, and how the people around us feel too.
We tend...
In Buddhism there are practices called the paramis. Depending on which tradition you follow there are six of them, or ten, and practising them is said to lead you toward ...
This was the most reprinted thing I ever wrote for my feng shui journal, and people still ask me. Everybody has met someone who painted their front door red and swears th...
Feng shui can sound complicated, and done in depth it is. A full reading works from compass directions, the year a house was built, the land around it, the birthdates of ...
