Southern Spell
Each spring I am drawn back to Charleston, South Carolina, my home for five blissful years in the early 1980s. I’ve watched with sadness...
West of Eden
“Can you hear that,” asks Joanna Morrison (BMus 89) as she holds the phone away from her ear. Across 13000 km of fibre optic cable comes...
These beds have gone to the dogs
March 11, 2011 Alex Newman Special to the Star Fantasy: Your home is on the cover of a national shelter magazine, a beautiful haven of...
Condo canine spas: I’ll take the mani-pedi and milkbone package
Special to National Post Feb 3, 2012 – 10:07 AM ET | Last Updated: Feb 7, 2012 1:34 PM ET By Alex Newman We give them birthday presents,...
Start Your Garden with a Little Visualization
By ALEX NEWMAN Special to the Star Thu., March 24, 2011 For one brief shining moment this past week, it seemed that spring might be...
To Delight is a Gift
If I were a gambling girl, I’d bet money that each and every one of us has at some time received a gift that totally blew us away....
Saltbox Special
By Alex Newman Cottage Life, June/July 2019 “Small, simple, affordable, beautiful.” That’s what Halifax couple David Black and Heather...
Big Dogs, Small Condos
Dogs are a growing part of downtown condo living. Builders and city planners are providing paws-itive input By Alex Newman Special to the...
Where Neil Flambe was Born
The third floor attic of author-illustrator Kevin Sylvester’s home suits him to a tee. Separated from the domestic part of the house, it...
Divorce + the Family Plot
Death after a divorce can be messy for the living Special to the Star Mon., Nov. 12, 2018 Dustin Wright’s parents had been amicably...
