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Jo Ostgarden is a freelance journalist who has traveled around the world by plane, train, thumb, bicycle and automobile. She bicycled across Canada, the Pacific Coast Highway from Oregon to British Columbia and throughout 14 countries abroad. Additionally, she's an enthusiastic longtime backpacker who calls the Grand Canyon her own personal energy spot. She's also expert on travel in the Pacific Northwest, Hawaii and Ireland. She edited and re-wrote the final edition of Best Places Northwest Travel Guide, and has written about travel, health, nutrition and endurance sports gear for dozens of magazines and newspapers, including Bicycling Magazine.
Walls painted in neutral colors are a favorite of house flippers. A neutral palette, after all, is reliable and flexible for home staging purposes. And it’s cheap to buy in bulk. But after awhile it’s a complete ho-hum bore to live with and can even have a negative impact on […]
Few things can create or shift a mood, or transform an environment or space, as well as candle light. And as St. Francis once quipped: “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light of a single candle.” But if you regularly use them in your home or office, […]
Sheets are a good example of a household staple that has gotten way too complicated. It’s easy to throw your hands up when faced with too many choices, but if you think in terms of the basics—cotton, organic cotton, percale, bamboo, polyester and flannel—it can help you get to what […]
By Jo Ostgarden Few things can create or shift a mood, or transform an environment or space as quickly as a lighted candle. They’re an ideal gift to give and an ideal gift to get. As St. Francis once quipped: “All the darkness in the world cannot extinguish the light […]
One of the many diets out there is the “Paleo” Diet: imagine eating food that a caveman would consume—any food that you could hunt or gather, but will more likely find in a grocery store. Things such as meats, fish, nuts, and seeds or produce grown locally (that is within 400 […]
