No blue tape. No hesitation. Painters have a proper tool, yes. But more importantly, they have a proper attitude.

Atomic habits are the regular practice or routine that is not only small and easy to do, but also the source of incredible power.

We want to look better, or act better, or fundamentally do better for ourselves. If only our desire for change was enough to make it so.

Why does it matter who gets the last word?

It is not so much the stuff that is bothering me now as it is the amount of stress and angst and money required to get that stuff.

I don’t think we give much thought to the least we can do. What if the least we could do was actually the best next step to take?

This is the first in what I hope will be a series of blogs that feature some of the people that I have had the pleasure to get to know...

And what better way to deal with this more isolated time than to dive into a book and allow yourself to be taken away? Here are a few ideas:

What has following the rules actually done for me?

We lived in our old colonial in Virginia for nearly 10 years before I was able to convince my husband that it was time to do something...

My grandma Rachel grew up on a farm in North Carolina. She was college-educated, raised her family of five, and then for the duration of...

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It is pretty easy to feel disenchanted these days. The virus sweeping the globe is all-consuming, in all the wrong ways. And if you are...

We count on trees for so many things. Shade. A foundation for our treehouse. Clean air. A home for the animals. Trees are steady. Trees...

We are all about the steps these days. My Fitbit yells at me daily to get in those steps. Take the stairs and add years to your life, so...

As a kid, Halloween meant trick-or-treating in the chilly, DC October air, usually with the reluctantly donned coat over my mother's...

I had an entirely different blog post set for today but I was compelled to change the topic entirely given the recent events this past...

I am so proud of my brother-in-law. I have always been proud to call him my brother but I am particularly proud of him of late. He has...

Say "yes". That was our philosophy when we decided to move to San Francisco. There was so much to digest, moving across the country. We...

There is a case to be made for taking chances. A case that I spent many years not talking about. A case that, despite the proof right in...