Penny Caldwell

Thanks for all your mouse stories in response to my mousetrap post. My brave colleague here at Cottage Life has another one to share: “In the 35 years that my family has owned our cottage, I have never actually seen a live...

It's Friday (yea!) and in a few hours many of us will be at the cottage. The smart ones are already there. And others, also fortunate, are getting ready to visit someone else’s cottage. If you are in that last group, what are...

A note from the Canadian Safe Boating Council: This is a reminder to keep a lookout for Canadian Safe Boating Awards nominations during the summer and fall. By the way this is the 10th Anniversary. The forms and nomination...

Once in a while, the Cottage Life editors take a break from hanging about in cottage country and do something really difficult – like attend a downtown lunch event to celebrate barbecue and beer. It’s a tough job, and...

When Cottage Life’s design editor, Leslie Young, took her two-year-old son Nathan to the family’s Lake Winnipeg cottage last week, he developed a curious new habit, presumably learned from the adults around him. By the end of...

Yesterday was a dark day for a friend of mine. Not dark in the sense of hitting a rock in the boat and needing an engine rebuild. Dark in the sense of feeling overwhelmingly helpless to change the course of bad things...

“It’s a good thing we cannot see into the future. If I had known last week that everything from the CottageDaily blog, to the dog was going to break, I might have curled up into fetal position and stayed in bed until it was...

A new idea from a hardworking group: For immediate release Cottage Dreams launches new online fundraising program that helps cottage visitors say thanks and give back at the same time The Ripple Effect urges Ontarians to give a...

This is your chance to recognize a cottager and cottage group whose environmental efforts you admire. Or – don’t be modest! – you can nominate yourself (or get someone else to). There will be two cash donation awards of...

What do we do around the office water cooler? Tell cottage stories, of course. James Little, editor of explore magazine, also published by our parent company, Quarto Communications, took a break from tales of extreme adventure to...