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Keeping the house clean is much easier for me today than it was fifteen or twenty years ago, but I cannot credit some perfect schedule I finally discovered. My kids are simply older. They no longer leave toys all over the living room, and I have not had to check what happened after suspicious silence […]
I’m out sick this week. One of my kids is in college, the other is at school, so I’ve had an unusual amount of time to notice just how much can pile up around the house during a normal day. It made me wonder again how people with full-time jobs manage to get everything done. […]
A few nights ago, I had finally sat down after a long day and put on Sex and the City. Samantha was in the middle of one of those scenes where she says exactly what everyone else is too polite to say when my phone rang. It was a neighbor who lives across the street. […]
When you manage a team of housekeepers at a busy hotel in Manhattan, you quickly learn how important a good work schedule is. Every morning, I check which rooms are vacant and how much time the employees have before new guests arrive. After more than 25 years in hotel housekeeping, one of my most important […]
When we moved from Denver to New York, one of the first things I found unusual was how rarely people here open their windows. In Denver, I used to open the windows wide every morning, even when snow had fallen outside. Now I have windows that only open partially, so I’ve spent the past few […]