Once upon a time, I was someone’s hero. In fact, I was a hero to two people. I comforted them when they were sick or hurt; I led them on adventures to the zoo, Legoland, and Mt. Rushmore; I camped in a backyard tent with them and the dog, and we built blanket forts in… Continue reading I Gave Up Trying to Impress My Adult Children

John Maeda said, “Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.”  For anyone who has experienced downsizing to a smaller home in the hope of replacing real estate with freedom and adventure, you know that the act of simplifying is not synonymous with simplicity.  Culling years or decades worth of belongings is both… Continue reading The Emotion I Didn’t Expect When Downsizing