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Six years ago, I made what was certainly my biggest home-related blunder. I dared to fall in love with the notion of a two-toned deck: dark stain paired with crisp white paint. I was enamoured with how it looked (so classic!) and stupidly rushed ...

Ready for a little fruit in your life? It’s strawberry time and I couldn’t be more ready. Strawberries are one fruit that almost anyone can grow whether you have a garden or just a hanging basket. They are great at producing fruit in ...

The old man mind-walks back to his youth. Like a black-and-white reel nearing the closing credits, one more story yet to unfold. “Well, what was I going to say… 1933 or ’32? I was, of course, going to school then and one ...

Sometimes the drive-thru speaker crackles, but the greeting is always genuine, friendly and familiar. “Welcome to McDonald’s, can I take your order?” Wally Polson is a fixture at this fast-food restaurant on James Street in ...

He’s portrayed a dead man hundreds of times but had never seen death. Sitting bedside this past February as his father’s life slipped away, Jeremy Novak’s view of mortality changed. A desire to make the most of limited time ...

He’s been a weather watcher since he was a child. “Been that way since I was 10 years old,” says Carl Sonnichsen. “I used to cut weather maps out of newspapers and piece them into a journal and record weather forecasts ...

 She'd heard the talk. Well-meaning family and friends prompting her mother: "Maggie should be a model." “I was always around when people would say it to her, so I heard it, of course, but my mom never really pushed ...

For 10 straight days Mark Brennan made his way to the same stretch of forested wetland along the bank of Middle River, and on the 10th day he sighted the Canada warblers. Small and brightly coloured in grey-blue and yellow, the song birds are ...

By Dianne Daniel  Before kicking old items to the curb, you might want to invest in a paint pot. Newer, environmentally friendly paints are making it easy to breathe new life into everything from dressers, nightstands and tables, to large ...

Balconies are not often known for being big. But they do provide just enough space for you to step outside and get some fresh air, and even host a couple of people. Because space is usually tight, you want to maximize every square inch of your ...