Category Archives: DIY💭
The Essential Pre-Trip Checklist of House Chores
Hold the mail – If you’ll be gone awhile hold your mail. For long stints away take a few minutes to stop your mail online to avoid pileup. If you just go to USPS.com, you can put your mail on … Continue reading
Beautiful Limitations
Honor the limitations of your home. Its size forces you not to over crowd it. You’ll be more intentional with things you welcome into your space and, overall create better habits in what you decide to keep versus not keep. … Continue reading
Home Repairs
I think our family house in the Philippines is angry at me. Tiles break, pipes burst, roof leaks. I may have hurt its feelings years ago when I told my mother to sell it because I was not going to … Continue reading
Laundry Therapy
The day after an ill-fated second date, I called my little brother as I lay in bed, despondent, in my dingy college apartment. “I don’t have time to come home and do laundry today,” I said. “Oh, and I met … Continue reading
Beautiful Stacks
There are some books you’ll re-read time and time again, and some books you’ll only reference occasionally. And while you’ll want to keep the former easily accessible, you can bear to get a little more creative with the latter. One … Continue reading
Real Life of an MSW 