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Cottage Q&A
Have a dilemma at your cottage? Looking for a solution to a common problem? Check out Cottage Q&A, a compilation of past columns from Cottage Life magazine.
Penny's blog
Always insightful, Editor Penny Caldwell has a way of finding the right words to capture the essence of cottaging. She'll help you feel like you're on the dock, even when you're stuck in the city.
Read Penny's blog here and share your comments too.
News From Our Dock
Cottage Life nominated for 11 National Magazine Awards, wins 2
Cottage Life won twice in the 2008 National Magazine Awards: David Zimmer and Jane Rodmell won a gold in the how-to category for our Grill Guide to Great Chicken, and our art director Kim Zagar, won a silver for art direction for an entire issue (October 2008). We were also nominated nine times in other categories, including service: lifestyle, words and pictures, homes and gardens, and photojournalism and service essays. Congratulations to all of the other winners and nominees.
Our green commitment
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Congratulations to our circulation manager, Heather Maxwell-Tufford, who won the 2009 Eco Award for Print Promotion from the Circulation Management Association of Canada.
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We're proud to print Cottage Life magazine on ancient-forest friendly paper. Read more..
Meet the editor
Penny Caldwell, editor, Cottage Life Magazine
Penny Caldwell has been writing for Cottage Life since its inception in 1988 and been an editor with the magazine since 1991. She was appointed editor-in-chief in 2000.
A long-time cottager with a passion for boating, Penny spends as much time as she can on the water at her family’s off-grid, solar-powered, water-access cottage on Georgian Bay. She’s joined there by her husband, two teenagers, and a golden retriever named Taylor, who appeared on the cover of Cottage Life magazine’s special issue in 2002 celebrating the cottage canine.
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