Indeed, January is National Get Organized Month. And Author Judy Gruen has decided to add her own cheeky comments to this united de-cluttering movement. Gruen, writer of "Till We Eat Again: Confessions of a Diet Dropout," stopped pretending that her cluttered desk revealed a genius, all it does is reveal her distain toward anything that smells of housework:
"Our family has a sacred, time-honored tradition: Before company arrives, we frantically scoop up piles of mail, library books, sunglasses, keys, the dog's leash and anything else that has been parked on the dining room table and shove them onto the kitchen table."
"The uber-organized among us, who know where to tuck every receipt and those itty-bitty screwdrivers for glasses, never experience the thrill of unexpected discovery. Last week, while looking for a client's phone number that I had jotted on the back of a bank receipt, I was reunited with a pair of earrings that had gone missing weeks earlier. I tell you, Lewis and Clark didn't make as many discoveries when they crossed the Mississippi River as I do every week at home."
- Check out Gruen's essay from Tuesday's Chicago Tribune
