Are You Ready?

In cooking – well, French cooking I guess – there is a term: mise en place (MEEZ ann plays). It means to have everything ready before you begin. For instance, if you were making a vegetable soup, you would have all of your pots and utensils ready, your vegetables out, washed and cut or diced. […]

Entertaining with ADHD

This post is a part of BlogHer’s Life Well Lived – Getting Organized series. Join the discussion here and enter to win the sweepstakes here. Question: What is your best tip for hosting a gathering, get-together or party that is enjoyable and stress-free for both the host and guests? Entertaining can be so difficult for […]

If You Take It Out…

…put it back. Remember that little list of rules? Here they are: If you take it out, put it back. If you open it, close it. If you throw it down, pick it up. If you take it off, hang it up. If you use it, clean it up. I think that if all we […]

Well Duh!

Do you ever have those “well, duh!” moments? You know, when you’ve been trying to solve a problem or are struggling with something and then somehow you see the solution? And it’s easy and simple and you wonder why you didn’t think of it? Cause it was staring you in the face. Yep, that’s an […]

Keeping Those New Years Resolutions

Did you make New Years resolutions this year? And if you did, how are you doing with them? It’s almost 3 weeks into the new year. Have you abandoned your resolutions already? This whole idea of keeping or maintaining New Years resolutions is part of a discussion over at Life Well Lived at BlogHer. You […]

Are You Getting in Your Own Way?

What areas in your life are you having trouble with? Right now a lot of my areas center around my desk and my computer. The account I keep meaning to cancel. The stuff I keep meaning to check on. Writing my blogs and my newsletter. I was thinking about all of that today and why […]