Remember that one of my New Year’s resolutions was to reduce the clutter in my house, so I could achieve serenity?

I had an early success. I donated a bunch of books to a university library. But I’ve followed each little surge of cleaning with a relapse. My house doesn’t look any better than on January 1.

I try not to do any writing work on Saturdays. So it comes as a relief to do some house cleaning and run an errand or two.

During the week I’m pretty good about loading and emptying the dishwasher. I use watchthatpage.com to track Kelly’s Missions on Flylady.net. I like the idea of spending 15 minutes a day on clean-up. But sometimes I can’t even muster that.