Oregon kids never get bored when they’re cooped up inside. Yeah, right. After a few minutes of not being able to bounce into rain puddles or try to make a snowman out of melting powder, they might let ...

Rope swing inside the author’s adobe house in Santa Fe, New Mexico. It’s a simple wooden disc attached to a long, thick snake of rope. When I bought it last summer for our daughters’ third and fifth ...

Until we turned our backyards into extensions of our homes, we may have ventured outside only when entertaining guests or for a relaxing hour on the weekend. Now we want to use our outdoor living room ...