I can not recommend The Story of Stuff highly enough. I urge everyone to watch it, with your children if you have any.
In a nutshell, Annie Leonard’s film and website explain how our socioeconomic system, in which most of us toil for the benefit of a few, will lead us all to ruin if left [...]

If you’re going take off on a whim for a weekend in the White Mountains, you’re going to need a guide book and a bit of luck.
 
Advance planning has never been my forte, but Ev and I had a blast last weekend, despite minimal preparation, with the aids of experience and a newly published guidebook [...]

I wasn’t the least bit worried about bouncing down the upper Kennebec River in a raft, myself. I’d done it before, with a bunch of friends many years back. It was a wild trip, and heaps of fun.
An organized, commercial group outing led by a professional guide would be tame in comparison, I thought. Still, as [...]

I don’t usually do this sort of post, but I thought I’d share my fleeting fascination with a sport that’s completely unfamiliar to me: stand up paddle surfing.
I stumbled onto Web sites devoted to the sport while checking out a longboarding (skateboarding, that is) site, which had an article and ad for a product being sold [...]

I like camping and I don’t mind roughing it, but it’s hard to argue against the benefits of beds, a screened porch, hot meals, warm showers, and cold beer.
My family enjoyed all those comforts in the midst of the Maine woods during our annual family summer getaway, generously sponsored by my parents.
 
 
We stayed at Medawisla, a [...]

Yards and gardens aren’t the only places that require weeding. Local ponds, marshes and rivers also are at risk of becoming overrun by weeds, and the aquatic kind are every bit as tough to eradicate as the terrestrial types. Pulling weeds by boat has got to be more fun than picking them out of the ground, [...]