cottage life

  • Cabin life during COVID

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  • I remember the exact moment when I decided that I would never go back to my family’s cottage ever, ever again. It was August 2000. I was 16 and sick of visiting the dusty, drafty old place in Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains. Its incessant mothball smell was get­ting to me, especially because it never seemed to…

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  • Like many people in their late 20s and early 30s, Heather Payne and her husband, Shawn Konopinsky, are bright, ambitious and successful – but they don’t own the place where they live with their one-year-old baby. Instead, they own a cottage. For the past five years, they have rented their apartment in the downtown Toronto…

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