CLICK TO ENLARGE “What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make our end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.” -T.S. Eliot Here we are again, ending another year. A perfect time to put closure to the past. A perfect time to dream and a perfect [...]

More about all that stuff… I hired several people to help so I wouldn’t get bogged down in memories or decide I’m too tired to finish. I decided that everything I don’t need is going, going, gone. I’ve had a new insight about the importance of doing all this. It must be because we’d been [...]

All that stuff… I’m doing it. I mean it. I’m getting rid of stuff. I’m on a campaign to simplify my life. I’ve promised myself I’m going to be ruthless. I began a major clean out in spring, 2009. Because I have my business in my home I had filled three file cabinets with paper, [...]

In September my husband and I rode a train from Chicago to Sacramento, CA. For two days I read, dreamt, dozed, looked at spectacular scenery, and worked on crossword puzzles. Or, did nothing. West of Denver, we were privileged to see  inaccessible country we would never be able to see any other way. We’ve been [...]