Monthly Archives: March 2012

If you know the feeling of damp shivering chilled to the bone cold, and you want to come into a house and be embraced like a mother wrapping a sick child in a blanket, then forced –air heat is the … Continue reading →

Heating your own home is all about comfort. The goal is to efficiently create warmth, with minimum effort and cost, to enable easily living the rest of your life (obtaining food in all forms) while winter rages outside. Fireplaces satisfy … Continue reading →

Although it has been a fairly mild winter, the high cost of heat and the number of calls for help with weatherization invites a few basic lessons on the subject of creating efficient comfort in colder climates. This week, a … Continue reading →

No matter the degree of our comfort level, the world has become an unsettled place. Riots and revolutions, earthquakes, tsunamis, droughts, tornados and economic collapses can be seen as the apocalyptic precursors predicted and parodied to culminate in 2012. The … Continue reading →

It’s never just happily ever after. Anyone who has been in a real and successful marriage knows that it takes hard work, lots of patience, a healthy dose of compromise and a little bit of luck. For all the romance … Continue reading →