Living

Elena Grant, owner of Sofiabella boutique in Edgemont Village, will be going shoeless on ethical footwear brand Toms fifth annual One Day Without Shoes event, next Tuesday, April 10.

- Jam Making Month-By-Month, by Mel Sellings. Published by The Good Life Press, 192 pages, $27.95. MEL Sellings' version of jam making is not done in a pristine white kitchen where all stains are banished.

PEANUT butter offers great nutritional bang for your buck as an excellent source of protein (eight grams per tablespoon).

THE first time I wrote about the importance of seeking out wild salmon over farmed - about a decade ago - I got an interesting reaction. One reader emailed me and told me not to bother writing about things I didn't understand.

Parents in my groups often talk about the struggle to agree on how to raise the kids. It's not always easy to be on the same page.

I find the best home ideas always come from friends and family. It seems there are all kinds of ways to shrewdly store our household items these days.

SIGNS of spring are all about the North Shore, from the golden blooms of skunk cabbage, or swamp lantern, to the delicate pink of salmonberry flowers, and the hot pink of redflowering currant.

Gardeners may differ in opinion from survey

IT is time to put all my theories to the test. Well, perhaps not all. I don't quite know how to test my theory that sharks will not eat politicians out of professional courtesy. However, many of my theories are about to be put to the test.

Double Take: Presentation House Gallery will hold a photography contest designed to inspire and encourage youth. Students are requested to choose an older image and show how the same place, person, object or building has changed over time.