Saying No to Distractions
I was preparing for dinner and thinking about what I wanted to read while eating when a voice said “just stop”. It wasn’t an angry voice. More like a gentle…
Category: Simplicity
More about rushing…
According to Cheryl Richardson, I may be addicted to adrenaline. Which explains a lot about rushing, the topic of my previous post. It also makes me laugh because when I…
Slowing Down
Today has been a quintessential Stella Sunday… and I really needed that calm, timeless day to recharge my batteries. I have been rushing too much lately. So this morning, instead…
Travelling at the speed of…bicycle
The muffler on my car stopped muffling. In fact, it fell off completely, making the most horrendous noise as I left it behind. Back when I wrote about simplicity here…
Efficiency Revisited
I took the leap. I got a Smart Phone in the interest of efficiency. Remember the discussion about notebooks and having everything in one place? Well, I am a list…
The Fullness of Nothing
Living in a one room house has some extra challenges. Like when it’s time to repaint. There is no second room to live in while the job is getting done.…
When the Going Gets Tough…
I met the show stopper this week. It all began innocently enough. It was week 5 of working with the “fantastic checklist” of affirmations by creativity coach Eric Maisel: “I will…
View from the Treetops
This has been a week of radical ideas perched in my forest of familiarity. Unlike the Green Peace rebels though, these radicals called for cutting some big trees. I started to get nervous.…
Stella Sunday Afternoons 