Organizing Clutter Author
Manages "Mess Less" Home Office

My partner is a writer. Organizing clutter author-style she knows about. When she creates her style is to have all the research laid out around her computer console. It resembles a colorful nest.

She has colored pens in a "Mama Jewel" ceramic cup and grabs them to jot notes or phrases. At the end of her writing session, she leaves everything exactly the way it was as she finished.

Books are propped open, printed pages are set around or taped up, pens are hooked over the edges of sheets. She switches off the lights, vacates the room, closes the door, and the work rests waiting for her return.

At the end of the writing project, she becomes a whirling dervish scouring her creative space, slapping research into files, and conducting a sacred sage smudge pot cleansing. When finished, she steps back, beams and preens over the accomplishment. "It's refreshing and I feel lighter. I need to write again," she tells me.