Penny Caldwell

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. This Friday, the movie Battleship—based on the Hasbro game of the same name—opens in theatres. I don’t remember this board game involving any giant alien robots that emerge from...

Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor Okay, the Ontario budget may have passed (yay, no election!), but the bill to enact amendments coming out of that budget is still yet to pass; it’s Bill 55, the Strong...

News flash: We’ve just heard that the night before she begins an eight-city speaking tour aimed at protecting the Great Lakes watershed, Council of Canadians chairperson Maude Barlow will be presented with a Heart & Vision...

Last summer we had a fire in our boat’s engine compartment. Our first clue something was wrong was the strong odour of fuel while we were under way. We limped into a nearby cottage dock, fixed the leak, mopped up the fuel,...

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. In our June 2012 issue we have a story about Diane Gauthier’s fishing boat-turned-outhouse (pg. 27). Neato! Definitely the coolest outhouse I’ve ever seen. (People send this...

“The notion of people doing weird things because of a full moon is just folklore,” according to a story on Fox News that talks about the supermoon happening tomorrow night. The closest point to Earth in the moon's orbit (the...

Some kids have a treehouse. My sister and I had a boathouse. It was two storeys, white with green trim, same as the rented cottage up the hill. The two of us slept alone in the single room over the boat slip. She was nine; I was...

Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor If you make money from using a boat, as of July 1, you may have to register your boat as a commercial vessel with Transport Canada. This applies to most commercial vessels and...

Guest post by Jackie Davis, assistant editor. At the Spring Cottage Life Show, we’d asked visitors to the Cottage Life booth “What’s your favourite thing about the cottage?” Many people said “family,” a bunch said...

Guest post by Blair Eveleigh, senior associate editor Maybe you were at our recent Spring Cottage Life Show and saw the exhibit in the Wildlife Centre by the Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre. Or maybe you read my blog post a couple...