The topic of Primitives is vastly overwhelming. I have seen fantastic primitives that date back to Colonial days. The early American settlers and pioneers set the standard that so many try to emulate today...
This time of year with our focus on Christmas, I’d like to offer a few tips on indoor and outdoor holiday lighting for your festive home. Lighting is an important consideration in making our homes festive, warm, safe and inviting.
Life moves pretty fast. We think we have time enough both present and future but it’s a lie. The tyranny of the urgent so often prevents higher ideals from ever taking form. The sad irony is the higher ideal almost always involves helping others outside our circles...
It was almost a century ago, 1916 to be exact, when a young man, only 18, was put on a boat by his six older brothers and shipped off to America before the Turkish army could conscript him...
Jacksonville, it seems, is the ultimate unanticipated destination. We all know why we left our old stomping grounds—too much traffic, too impersonal, etc...
This month brings us Thansgiving—A time to reflect on our reasons to be thankful—I would like to take this opportunity to...
My eggs have all hatched. This is what I thought last week as I sat on the porch in the morning, my children back in school. I thought about them being gone, and about my book being finished, and my mother entering the last chapter of her life, and about ...
Since a big part of our Thanksgiving celebration is geared around food preparation, I though I’d share a tried and true recipe for Joy-Full Life.
By mid-October family life seems to get back into the full swing of things. School schedules are in place...
Peggy Peffley has a “bionic garden”...always exploding and taking over!
Very soon, we’ll be tucking indoors for long sessions away from the chilly outdoors. To be comfortable outdoors, we layer up...
Do you have enough money saved for retirement? Financial planners usually use the “25 Times Rule” to determine...
With summer winding-down, there’s something about the back-to-school season that’s filled with promise of new beginnings...
Over the years people have asked me how we’ve survived living and doing business in a small town for so long...
This is an updated version of the article that appeared in our November 2013 print issue.
Fall is in the air and the leaves are changing colors. Should our decor follow suit?
The Jacksonville Woodlands Park and Trail System meanders above and around town, providing...
In October, Jacksonville Review contributor and author Kate Ingram’s book, Washing the Bones: A Memoir of Love, Loss and Transformation...
How many times have you come across a fabulous item in a museum or a shop and wondered to yourself, “If this item could talk, I wonder what stories would it tell?”
Last summer, I wrote about Rick and Michelle Moir's garden—here’s a follow-up!
I’ve noticed that columns in the Review have become engagingly pithy and more personal. This is a very good thing...
Detox products are very popular to help rid the body of toxins. We recognize that toxins can obstruct the function of organs...
Do you feel it? Do you see it? Something is different! The Rogue Valley has a deafening low-level buzz rising in the air...
Autumn is the season we savor for cinema. Oh sure, summer has the fun “popcorn” movies that entice people to...
I like to think of the parenting journey like a road trip across the country. There are major highways and interstates where...
I was recently criticized as someone who lived in the “Wild West” and unable to move into the 21st century...
This October marks Kay Faught’s five-year anniversary at Blue Door Garden Store!
No one likes the feeling that summer is winding down, but I think we can all agree there is something about the back-to-school season...
At quarter past one in the morning my boys woke up shocked and dismayed to find my husband and me aiming our flash lights...
At Sterling Creek Antiques in downtown Jacksonville, we encounter stories every day.
I haven’t been writing much lately and boy, am I feeling it. Writing is no different than athletic training...
What a pleasure to find a very “individualistic” style of a garden. This month's garden took me on a walk through a forest garden
There are two inter-related trends that have impacted the rental market. The first is the rapidly growing number...
I think we are all designed to live in a small pond and if not a small pond then much smaller parts of bigger ponds.
Because of the monumental fires in our area, all of us in the Rogue Valley have been exposed to toxins from smoke...
By the time you read this, a decision will have been made. It will not, however, be revealed until about the time...
Lately, we have been hearing from a small number of citizens about their concerns over what they’ve heard...
A contemporary home takes on a multi-layered and collected look when the furnishings...
Yes it’s hot out there, but not too hot for yoga...
This August is the start of the third year for the Family Views column…
When it comes to heirlooms, items of value passed from one generation to the next, most people would not expect...
Yesterday I grabbed Deepak's book—I call him Deepak now—The Seven Spiritual Laws of Success off my shelf...
Now that summer is here, we can truly enjoy our lawns and the outdoor areas where we’ve invested...
Helen and Ray Forsyth live on Main Street in a home that’s tucked only 50-feet behind...
Here is a recap of real estate prices, sales and interest rates and how they have affected our local market...
That was quite a picnic on July Fourth! Five hundred hot dogs purchased, five hundred hot dogs served...
Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear...
This year we were asked by Oregon’s State Fair Division to be the title sponsor and director of the 2013 Best Coffee in Oregon...
A couple of years back, my son tried out for an elite, exclusive athletic team. He was the star player on his previous team...
One of the most beautiful greetings I know is a Sanskrit word: “Namaste.” It means...