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Know Your Neighbor – Reunion Apparel

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When I last wrote about Reunion Apparel Resale in November, Tara and Will were just getting started as young business owners taking on the Portland clothing scene.   I’m grateful for their sponsorship of our Roost program and more than happy to spread the word every few months about their hidden little gem of a [...]

Know Your Neighbor – Cold weather car care with Hawthorne Auto Clinic

What better day to be talking about cold weather car care than the first snowy morning of the season. Liz and Jim at Hawthorne Auto Clinic are two of my favorite role models for how to run a business and how to take care of a car.  I’ll brag about how well they take care [...]

Know Your Neighbor – Good health with a little help from my friends

I don’t know which is more common: making New Year’s resolutions or breaking them.  When I look back at the major changes I’ve been able to make over the years, every success I’ve had has been with some really key support along the way.   Let’s face it, if we could easily make the [...]

A Thanksgiving Thank-you Letter

A THANKSGIVING THANK YOU LETTER:

I get to hear so many great things from our families and our sponsors every month, it was delightful to open my email on Thanksgiving to this post that sums up so many of the sentiments I get to be a witness to every day. Hope it warms your heart [...]

Road to Tibet

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I’m guessing that Yeshi’s life sounds much more romantic in the telling than it does in the living of it but she’s a little living miracle right in the heart of the Hawthorne shopping district. Her shop – Road to Tibet – is sometimes open, sometimes closed in the rhythm of her balancing act [...]

Reunion Apparel

If you have any memory left of life before kids when you were super young and in love and ready to take on the world on a shoestring budget, you’ll already know everything you need to know about Reunion apparel resale. William and Tara have a little spot about the size of your average inner [...]

Know Your Neighbors – Schools and Classes

Whether you have a one year old or a fourteen year old, like the idea of circus skills for fun or Saturday school for better academics, this swap shop post about schools and classes connects [...]

Know Your Neighbor – Our Community Pantry

Happy Interdependence Day. Yep, that’s right . . . interdependence day.

I’ll be happily celebrating American Independence Day on Monday but today I’m grateful , not just for my independence, but for all the ways I am interdependent with so many great people in Portland.

Our newest Roost sponsor, Brion Oliver, in his own quiet [...]

Know Your Neighbors: Dental/Orthodontics Resources

 

This is the tale of two dental offices and an orthodontist and hopefully a pleasant reminder of how we all make an investment in each other when we move into a neighborhood together.

 

As a parent I don’t think about dentists/orthodontists too much .  . . [...]

Piccolina and the Art of Resale/Consignment

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Maybe you are a consignment regular and are opening this email already very familiar with Piccolina because you go there all the time – except not today.  They are, understandably, as a family run business, closed for Mother’s Day.

Piccolina’s owner, Sara, has chatted with a whole lot of Swap Shop members over the past 3 [...]

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