Enough is enough. Matt and I are letting our physical environment get too cluttered. Some people aren’t bothered by clutter. Unfortunately, I am. It makes me feel claustrophobic. I keep brainstorming all the ways I want to make our house nicer, and yet step one is to simply keep it picked up. End of story. It doesn’t matter how much money we invest in nice furniture if we’re going to cover that furniture in crap.

So I’ve already admitted the problem. What’s the next step for fixing the problem? I think I need to get at the root of the situation and figure out what’s causing it. First, it’s a … Read More

I’ve been craving a big whiteboard in my house ever since I was a first-year teacher in rural Louisiana. There was an experienced teacher a few towns over who had whiteboards in his living room. They stretched across his walls, and he used them to lay out his master plan for the school year. I would stare at those whiteboards in complete awe and wish for my own personal system of part-inspiration and part-accountability.

Two cities and five homes later, I still didn’t have any whiteboards to call my own. Matt and I have been debating where to put one. We have two windows on nearly every wall, which makes … Read More