New Roost Sponsor: Melissa, Guthrie, Mortgage Direct

Living more simply and making more local connections is a great way to upsize the richness of our lives and downsize the time we spend commuting away from our home to be able to come back and pay for it.

Our newest Roost business sponsor, mortgage broker Melissa Guthrie, knows that living simple [...]

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Know Your Neighhors - Tales from the dentist

This is the story of two front teeth, a wooden slide and a weekend call to the dentist.  I promise the story has a good ending (or two or three) so you can read on and know that it’s all going to turn out fine.

When Swap Shop and Roost board members and [...]

Know your neighbor - Humble Luna - Whimsical Designs for Children

… Fortunately for me and everyone else reading this, there are little pockets of joy right here in Portland where you can feel really good about what you have bought, who you have bought it from and how it was made… [...]

Know Your Neighbors - Israel Sostrin, physical therapist.

Everything we do with our body uses some combination of our strength, our flexibility and our endurance. Addressing just one of these three and not the others, as some of us can vouch for, can make the problem even worse. Israel’s work is all about better coordinating our own body’s natural balance while honoring that simple truth that we have gotten into whatever pinch we are in for very good reasons more complex than it all first appears. [...]

Know Your Neighbors - Wren's Nest Preschool

Wren’s Nest Preschool – Montessori preschool right in the neighborhood. There’s something magical about trays full of natural materials presented with awe and wonder to tiny bodies and little busy minds… [...]

Birthday party space at the Roost and in the gym

 Now and again we get questions about birthday parties for swap shop members.  At this time, both The Roost space and the gym are often available for use on Saturdays – The Roost morning, afternoon or night and the gym afternoon or evening for $75 to $150 depending on the amount of time, [...]

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