
To begin, I would like to thank those who have been so supportive and complimentary regarding our first issue. Your encouraging emails, Facebook posts and even a few tweets have been an inspiration to the entire editorial staff and particularly motivational considering the current budgetary cutbacks. "The Luggage" suspended Verde Home's webzine expense account for charges accrued while conducting a legitimate investigation into single malt scotch, but I will allow Graham Culpepper, travel writer and brown liquor aficionado, to further expound on this affront in his submission on Scotland's distilling regions.

If you are like most people, you will initially be repulsed by the taste of scotch. Keep at it. You will thank me later. I will admit that there is an outside chance of addiction but the odds are slim.


Breakfast feels more hopeful then the other meals. It is always looking toward the future.

At the heart of any comfortable sofa are the cushions and pillows. Several different types of both are available in the marketplace and as with most goods, you usually get what you pay for.

Several years ago the term natural or "vegetable" dye began to creep back into the lexicon of international carpet buyers. Over the last few years we have seen more and more consumers, as well as producers, using this term...