Covid kept us home and rewrote how we dine in. Google searches for outdoor kitchens nearly doubled in May 2020 from 2019, according to Hearth & Home Magazine (1-Aug. 2020). Wayfair.com, a leading online home goods website, reports that searches for “outdoor kitchens” and “outdoor dining areas” rose 130% and “outdoor…

Pipes burst. Electricity failed. Freezing temperatures across Colorado caused endless damage in mid-February 2021.

If the winter’s harsh weather got you thinking about what weather lies ahead for summer, The Old Farmer's Almanac predicts “hotter than normal” temps this coming summer with the worst heat in mid-to-late…

The year-long COVID pandemic has forced most of us to change our lifestyles—some of us dramatically. Work-from-home has surged and is likely to become much more prevalent than pre-COVID days. Kids have been locked out of most schools for months. And going out, whether to dinner, movies or…

We’re reaching the one-year anniversary of the arrival of COVID-19 in the US, and what we hoped would be a few weeks or months of inconvenience has evolved into a host of lifestyle changes.

Pre-COVID, families would spend 6-8 hours awake at home. Now with working and learning…

This winter promises to be a season to remember. Not only will we have the usual assortment of storms and other inconveniences, but for the first time in our lifetimes most of us will be forced to endure them stuck at home due to the COVID restrictions—without the…

Most of us will be more than glad to see the end of 2020 and the long pandemic-induced nightmare of a year. But even as we gradually recover, we should pay attention to the lessons learned from the lifestyle changes forced on us—some of which will be enduring.