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.
Summer energy is all fire: out late, windows shut, air conditioning on, mail piling up on the counter. Winter goes the other way, deep and quiet. Fall is the gentle stret...
A new year brings new energy with it, and the tradition says a house does best if it starts the year with a clean slate. In feng shui that means a space clearing.
Have yo...
Fall is a good time to hang a wind chime. The breeze is cool and gentle, and a chime moving in it is one of the nicer sounds of the season.
In feng shui, wind chimes are ...
How is it that we think we need bigger houses, bigger cars, bigger garages and more storage? Maybe we do not have too little space. Maybe we have more things than we will...
I was once asked, quite seriously, why someone had followed every feng shui tip for wealth and still had not won the lottery.
Here is the honest answer. Abundance and pro...
Anyone who has read more than one feng shui book has hit this. One says the bed should go here. Another says never. One puts the bagua on the compass and the next lines i...
Summer is when trees are at their best, tall and full and throwing shade across the lawn. It is also when a sick tree is easiest to spot, and when people start looking ha...
The salt water cure is used in feng shui when a certain combination of difficult stars, or a build up of negative energy, turns up in one sector of a home or office. It i...
Your bedroom should be a haven. It is where you rest and recover at the end of the day, and in feng shui it matters as much as any room in the house, because you spend ab...
Where attention goes, energy flows. It is the simplest way I know to explain how the compass works in feng shui.
In the traditional compass school, each direction of your...
You are so excited. You have cleaned out your closet, given away the things that were sitting in the basement, and you are ready for a fresh start. There is just one prob...
In feng shui a pet is good news for a house. Animals are moving energy, and the tradition says they keep the chi in a home flowing. Your dog has been doing your feng shui...
