Living a Lighter Life in 2020

My goal for 2020 is to live a lighter life. What’s driving this desire? It all feels like it’s going too fast for me and I want to slow down and savor more moments. 

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On The Road to a Simple Truth

We were sitting around the largest conference room table, all 40 of us, when our CEO announced that she had been offered an opportunity at a different company in a different state ...

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A Minimalist In The Making

My husband Randy has always been a minimalist. He was born and raised in Grosse Pointe, an affluent suburb of Detroit full of 1920’s mansions. His teen years were spent painting fo...

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A Summer Full of Whole Moments

It’s easy to stand on top of a mountain and see beauty. But for many it’s much harder to see beauty in the everyday. Like a delicious and colorful dinner that you fail to notice, u...

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Split into a Thousand Functions

For the first time in over 9 years I felt like I wasn’t split into a thousand functions. In mid July my husband Randy packed up his Ford 250 truck, our 7.5 and 9 year old boys, and...

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How to succeed at New Year's Resolutions past February

For many there’s a motivating magic in a new year. We ask ourselves, what we want to bring forward into 2019? What do we want to leave behind in 2018? We think about resolutions—an...

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Carving out a simple new Thanksgiving tradition

Being an extravert and a lifelong fan of food, Thanksgiving ranks at the top of my favorite holidays. As a child I remember getting excited each time the door bell rang on Thanksgi...

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Treat yourself to a retreat

Somehow it’s November and only eight weeks from now we’ll be saying ‘Happy New Year’—some a little more cheerfully than others. Does this excite you? Or after thinking through ever...

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