As I write this column, the Christmas holiday has just ended and New Year’s Eve is only days away. My office is…

My friend Heather, her husband, two children and two cats moved into a newly built house in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, three years…

In May, the house next door to ours caught on fire. Fortunately, the elderly lady who lived in the house moved to…

I always wanted to be a writer. When I graduated from college with English and history degrees and the strong desire to…

Home remodeling is not for the faint of heart. Having worked two years on a residential remodeling magazine a little more than…