As we crack open a brand new year, full of possibilities and opportunities, I love to look at the decorating trends designers are promoting for the coming season. Every year when I go to the big home furnishings markets to scout for furniture and accents I want to order, it’s fun to see what’s new and hot and exciting.
I’m a sucker for a good book and it’s even better if I have a great place to read it. “Novel Interiors: Living in Enchanted Rooms Inspired by Literature,” by Lisa Borgnes Giramonti (Potter Style, $35) combines both of those pleasures in a new coffee table book designed for lovers of literature.
Chaos reigns supreme. Politics is nasty. Terror grows everywhere. Daily life revolves around the small screen of an iPhone.
When I explain to people that I have not purchased electricity for 10 years, they are envious. When I tell them I have not bought gasoline or oil or a smog check for four years, they are amazed. When I tell them they can do the same thing simply by shifting their priorities, they yawn. Understanding the critical nature of our energy use is vital to our future well-being.
Every two minutes, a woman dies from complications related to pregnancy and childbirth, according to the WHO. Most of these deaths are preventable.
Learn how to keep your diesel engine running smoothly this winter.
Oregon wide receiver Darren Carrington reportedly failed an NCAA drug test and will not play in the national title game against Ohio State on Monday in Arlington, Texas.
If there was ever an advertisement for the cliche “basketball is a game of runs,” it was Friday’s Northwest League contest between Desert Oasis and host Bonanza.