There are many ways you can refresh your house for the spring/summer season. These projects can provide your house with the additional resale value, give you a fulfilling leisurely pursuit, and create a much better living environment. Much of this refurbishing will also add a brighter quality to the aspects of your house that most []

Reducing your household waste can help the planet in many ways. You may even be able to eliminate your waste completely if you’re diligent with your efforts.

A small home office doesn’t have to be expensive, but it’s important to carefully plan out your space.

Like hordes before us, we entered Rome through its northern gate. We had rented a terrace apartment in an old marble-filled building in the Flaminio neighbourhood, just outside the ancient city walls. Each day, we kept pace with Romans bustling to work and flowed through the Porta del Popolo, built in the late 1400s as a grand entrance to the city. Centuries before we arrived, barbarian tribes (so named by the Romans) stormed in here and sacked the city. Martin Luther also travelled this way. He came in the early 1500s to live in a monastery, from which he observed the church and the pope close up, just nine years before he and his ideas rocked the world. Later, there was Queen Christina of Sweden, who in 1654 converted to Catholicism, abdicated her throne and rolled into her adopted city through Porta del Popolo dressed as an Amazon and riding in a chariot.

This summer, my friend Lucienne and I escaped smog-blanketed Vancouver for a few days in Vancouver Island’s seaside town of Sooke. Our journey began early on a Friday morning in July as we set off for Tsawwassen ferry terminal in our forest green hybrid Honda Clarity. A beautiful and blustery hour-and-a-half BC Ferries trip to Swartz Bay, and an hour drive along island highways brought us to the quaint town of Sooke (pop. 13,000). Here we stocked up on provisions, plotting the meals we would prepare in the fully equipped kitchen that awaited us in our luxury suite at SookePoint Ocean Cottage Resort.

How do I make sense of my life? Is this all? What can I do about the maelstrom of feelings, ideas, habits, blind spots, and deep connection, which rules my body and mind? What will give me peace? I’m doing ok, but I’m not happy in my own skin.

Whether you’re self-isolating or quarantined at home, these live webcams will keep you and the kids entertained for hours.

While it’s a new experience for some, others — such as members of the capital region’s high-tech sector — are familiar with working remotely.

Windstars small sailing yacht the Wind Spirit can reach ports of French Polynesia larger cruise ships cant.

Looking up from the top deck of our rental houseboat on Lake Mead, the night sky above us was alive with stars — thanks to a lack of artificial light for miles. This being April, the start of houseboat season in Nevada, at night we literally had the lake to ourselves as far as we could see. And during the day we were also mostly alone, with the exception of the curious desert big-horned sheep we spotted one afternoon checking us out from above, numerous birds including vultures, and the odd hopeful fisherman casting for alarmingly large catfish and bluegills, which we watched trolling for food along the red canyon walls that rise above the blue-green lake.