I admire couples who can work from home together and not strangle each other by the end of the day. It’s not that I’m unreasonable, bitchy or territorial (at least not all of the time), but there’s no way I could stand to share an office with a spouse. Period.
Part of the reason is that [...]

In another blog post, I mentioned that my home office radar is always on. My recent trip to Costa Rica was no exception. While my sons and I were waiting to go rappelling, I noticed the owner’s home office. I qualify this as a home office because the owner lives in apartments attached [...]

Is your desk sloppy or streamlined? Messy or immaculate? Consider whether one of these three desk descriptions fits you.
Desk #1
Topsy-turvy and turbulent
The top of your desk is piled high with magazines, unopened mail and bills. If someone wants you to see something, they leave it on your chair. Eventually you’ll feel it when you sit [...]

Seeing files clearly
It’s easy to stuff files in a drawer and forget about them, but the problem is that the minute you shut the drawer, the files are out-of-sight, out-of-mind. This crystal clear acrylic collator has five dividers and will help you keep files clearly in sight.

Put a cap on it
I’m all about saving time [...]

Last week my family and I toured Costa Rica with our friends, Carlos Najarro, Jonle Sedar and their family.  While this was a personal trip, I couldn’t help focusing on their home-based business, CPI, a Spanish immersion school with three separate campuses in different parts of the country.
The beautiful Monteverde campus in the rainforest (yes, [...]