I try to find out what’s holding people back.” “Still, whether you’re buying a bunch of stuff you don’t need or just hanging on to a bunch of stuff you don’t need, there’s a reason for that. “These days, we’re more aware of our problems with spending and waste, but back then it really felt like a blind spot,” she says. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. This makes her less like a personal trainer or stylist and more like a guru, sought out by clients who desperately want to get organized, but also to heal. Lasting transformations, she believes, are inside-out and never easy. Naylon’s focus is on personal, therapeutic methods: In sessions that are often emotionally exhausting, she asks her clients intimate questions about relationships, career changes and how they ultimately want to live. Photo by Douglas Hill for The Washington Post
You need to start at the source.” Organizer Julie Naylon stands in the bedroom closet of her Los Angeles home. Boxes certainly help, but it’s like buying new clothes before you’ve lost the weight or changed your lifestyle. She isn’t convinced spice jars and color-coding will solve our larger issues with clutter.
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She has no breezy 10-step plan, no highly stylized Instagram feed, no e-commerce store full of handy organizing gadgets.
Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Some sparkly bonuses, like MACH ONE, WEASELS, ALTER EGO (Ziggy Stardust was David Bowie? Blows my mind!), helped balance out some tougher entries like LYCEES and CREVE. Thankfully, Amanda and Ross did a great job selecting themers that snazzed up the joint, WHOPPER JR such a fun entry. Yes, it's rare to get a Tuesday rebus, but the circles make it an easy rebus - too easy for a mid-week puzzle. Less so: TO RENT? OHO crossing OH THAT? R AND R, never written like that outside crosswords? I understand the desire to make the puzzle feel heftier, but I'd prefer scaled-back gridwork. In the opposite corner, ROSTRA is an odd duck but reasonable. Anytime you have to resort to the common-letter-heavy ERESTU on an edge, it's not so great. It's almost impossible to avoid compromises with a theme-dense, 72-word grid. I'd also have liked a less audacious grid layout. As is, the consistency for consistency's sake didn't wow me as much as it did Jim. It'd be one thing if there was a reason for PP to split across Across entries, and another reason for Downs to work differently. While I do like the tidiness of all the Acrosses working similarly, and the Downs too, there's no reason why they should. However, today was one of the rare occurrences where he appreciated consistency more than I did. He also (correctly) predicted that I'd note it too. Not so! Jim Horne, who usually doesn't care about things like this, noted it as a mark of elegance. I thought I'd be the only one who noticed the consistency of all the Across themers having PP split over two words, while all the Downs having PP within a single word. Though Amanda loves women and has a brain that crumbles at the thought or sight of numbers, she conceded.įor more Rafkin-Trudeau grids, visit either of our puzzle sites: Brain Candy and Rossword Puzzle s. We also would have preferred to have TORI clued as a woman, but the editors felt the puzzle was a bit name-heavy and preferred to clue the entry as a word rather than a proper noun. All this to say, well, CREVE isn't in our personal word lists, with apologies to the ~18,000 residents of Creve Coeur, MO. We offered to rework a few squares to accommodate CRETE / TEE (there's a TEED that would have needed to change), but it was too late to make changes. accepted the grid as you see it, but decided in final edits that CREVE / VEE was preferable to CREPE / PEE, given the rebus PP's. As if the story needed any more saccharine details, we even have a photo of us collaboratively placing the puzzle envelope into a blue mailbox. Towards the end of the weekend, the idea for a TWO PEAS IN A POD grid lodged itself in Amanda's brain as a way to commemorate our improbable puzz-based friendship. Within a few weeks, Ross had flown across the country to visit Amanda in L.A., and we spent a blissful three days making grids: on the sofa, in coffee shops, in the lobby of the historic Hollywood Roosevelt hotel.
When we linked up last year via social media to start making puzzles together, it was love at first Zoom.
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