Your best friend called wanting to connect… “Any chance we could meet for dinner this week?  I haven’t heard from you in a while and I’m concerned about you.”  “I’m so sorry… I can’t.  I’m so busy.” Your New Year’s Resolution is to exercise three times a week with friends – for the workout and [...]

The decision to downsize – or not – is on the minds of many Americans, especially Baby Boomers who have become or who will soon become emptynesters.  With fewer day-to-day parenting responsibilities, they suddenly discover more time and freedom to pursue interests that had been on the back burner.  They begin to prioritize their time [...]

If you are a baby boomer growing up in the 60’s, you probably remember listening to Neil Sedaka singing “Breaking Up is Hard To Do”. Many years later, baby boomers are still singing the blues, but this time it is not about breaking off a relationship with a young teenage romance, it is about parting [...]

I ran into a client the other day who recently downsized. The very first thing she said to me was, "Why did we wait so long to downsize?" She went on to say how much happier they are now without the burden and expense of the big house, all of the “stuff” they had accumulated, [...]

We all have dreams and bucket lists that we would like to accomplish in our lifetime. At this stage of our lives, we have likely completed many of them. Yet, there may still be a few important items on that list that continue to be relegated to our “someday” list and as the book title [...]

It’s January.  It’s time for New Year's resolutions.  Lose weight.  Exercise more.  Get organized.  Getting organized is among the top 3 promises we make to ourselves, and yet, according to U.S. News and World Report, by mid-February, only 20% of us will succeed at achieving our goals… 80% of us will fail. If decluttering and [...]

As an interior designer for the past 35 years, I have had the opportunity to help baby boomers design their first, second, and even third homes, their beach houses, mountain retreats, and country cottages.  I’ve helped them upsize to larger and larger homes (because that’s what baby boomers did!), and now at this stage of [...]

I was talking with a friend this morning who said, “I’m already exhausted… and the holiday season just began!”  She went on to say that she barely had time to enjoy Thanksgiving because she spent so much time and energy shopping, decorating, cooking, and cleaning that the actual dinner seemed like a big blur.  At [...]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htgJoXF5RYE&feature=youtu.be Happy holidays and Merry Christmas. What a wonderful time of the year. It's certainly one of my favorites. It's an opportunity for us to slow down, and a chance to focus on what really matters to us and to become closer to our loved ones. And yet, with the holiday rush, oftentimes, we get [...]

I downsized again! Who would want to waste a beautiful, sunny day cleaning out a storage day unit?  I did… and I would highly recommend it to others. It’s been 3 years since I moved from my big house to my tiny apartment in the city. At that time I gave away 95% of my [...]