These past weeks have taught me that to have close Black friends is not enough. To feel like you’re colorblind is not enough (and certainly not true for anyone and actually, dangerous). To believe that all men are equal in the eyes of God is not enough, until everyone is equal in the eyes of men. 

It took four years and a pandemic for me to create our wedding album.

I always try to let my clients off the hook when they tell me their goal is to turn their thousands of photos into photo albums. That was even before I personally realized how massive a job photo albums are. Ever since our wedding in September 2016 I had a sinking feeling about our photos. 

I never knew I had such strong opinions about cord management until I was interviewed for last week’s Washington Post article Don’t Let Tangled - Or Too Many - Cords Create Chaos At Home. They even used this photo I took in my kitchen! If you don’t subscribe to The Washington Post, click here to read.

By now you may have noticed how good it feels to get your hands on parts of your life in need of purging that you never would have had the time or focus to tackle before. If you need a change of scenery from organizing physical clutter or if you want to dig deeper into editing parts of your life you can’t see, you’ll learn exactly where to direct your attention in 6 Corners of Invisible Clutter to Organize During Quarantine. 

This week I gave my second virtual workshop from quarantine. This time a real estate brokerage asked me to share how to organize the home office. I felt I should think beyond tidying, because let’s face it, these days tidy isn’t enough.

A lot of you are working from home (maybe in the kitchen) and that comes with distractions - some of the family kind. I liked my sister’s attempt to keep those at bay with this sign she shared on her Instagram.