High School Students Earn Diplomas at a Distance As students around the country head back to school this fall, some are traveling no farther than the desk in their bedroom or the computer in the family room to get the high school education that best meets their needs. In fact, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, more than 1 million U.S. K-12 students attend private or independent schools and some 1.1 million U.S. students are homeschooled.
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Is YOUR Home A Safe Home? Do you or one of your family members suffer from allergies, asthma, add/adhd Heart disease, cancer, or respitory problems? It could be from the toxins in your home! Did you know that there are more Toxins in your home than in the outside air?
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Updating Your Cottage State of Mind In 1848, architect Andrew Jackson Downing bid readers of The Horticulturist to practice “beautiful and appropriate architecture. Do not build your dwelling places like temples, churches or cathedrals,” he implored. “Let them be, characteristically, dwelling-houses . . . let the cottage be a cottage.”
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Turn Your Home into a Vacation Retreat Who doesn’t yearn for that relaxed feeling that comes with the warmer climate, the casual lifestyles and the bright, open interiors of the islands? A growing trend in home design, from Maine to Michigan, is rooms inspired by these sunny spots in the hopes that it will make our homes breezy, colorful and restful and more vacation-like.
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Protect Your Car's Interior from Messy Spring Weather It’s that time of year when people have had enough of cold weather, snow, ice and winter in general, and thoughts turn to spring -- warmer temperatures, sprouting plants and melting snow and slush. It is important to protect your car’s interior from leftover road salt, sand and springtime mud.
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