I returned home a few days ago after spending a month up in Oregon helping my mom move into an assisted living/memory care facility. Rather than drive the usual 9 hours back, I did a nice thing for myself and stayed in a hotel on the road for one night. It’s part of my taking […]

Hi. Back in November I wrote a blog post about letting go of Skype Clutter Busting sessions. I wrote, “I can’t really say that I let them go though, because I haven’t had a client for months. That part of my business naturally fell away.” I took the Sessions page off of my website. The […]

My mom is now in an assisted living center. I took this picture of her today. She is healthy physically but having great difficulty mentally with the dementia. It’s hard for me to see her suffer. But I know it’s much harder for her. I hope they can figure out medications to help her feel […]

I’ve spent a lot of time at the hospital the past two weeks with my mom. Hospitals make me feel present. People staying there are in a bad way. They aren’t hiding they are in pain or having a very difficult time. They seem real and alive. It reminds me of when I was in […]