When revamping this site recently, I struggled about whether to leave this page up or not.  After one sucker punch after another in the past years we certainly don't need anymore reasons to fan the divisive fires that already plague this country.   One might even say that there's no place on a design site for anything political at all. And for the most part, I would agree other than the fact that literally anyone who knows me, knows I don't actually give a fig about "Politics".  However, my place within the "design community" has always been as much about the outside influences that effect our choices and how we live, as it is about interior design. From day one on Television, my goal was to help reduce fear so that one's personal creativity can come to the surfaces as the only true antidote to the stress that swirls around us.   

While the original manuscript was done in 2016, no one wanted to touch it unless I did a major edit job on it. No matter how well researched it was, it was early days.  While it would indeed prove to be an omen for things to come, at the time, it seemed absolutely incredulous.  That's of course why I wrote it in the first place with the help of many from my Consortium POV think tank.  

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Yet, in the form below that allows visitors to receive notices of when the RightSIZE book would be available, well.....we've received not a few random inquiries, but an avalanche of them especially since COVID hit.   I'm talking thousands and thousands here!   This of course makes perfect sense to me, but continues to worry the publishing companies who printed all my books to which, they profited handsomely from.  

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RightSIZE UP, is most assuredly about lifestyle at its core, but it's also about how that lifestyle is changing due to the increasing power of social media, the blurring of a society that has forgone the idea of establishing human boundaries and the errosion of truth in favor of that, which we seem to feel entitled too. This affects everything under our roof especially when families themselves are split as a result.  

So, the upshot is simply this.  I am already re-writing RightSIZE UP one more time.  It will now include what's happened recently.  I will release it once the dust has settled.  But in the meantime, I will be concentrating on our new Lifestyle Lab initiative.  While I'll never engage in party-line politics I am more than prepared to answer many of your questions, which are in fact, already included in RightSIZE UP!. So please feel free to talk candidly with me about how these outside influences are affecting your ability to make important lifestyle choices on my Viewer Mail segments.