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 [...]
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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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] Some of you may recall that our first pediatric dental sponsor was all the way up in Vancouver so you may be as happy as I am that, when Dr. Jenna Milot was deciding where to start her practice fresh out of residency at OHSU, she saw a gap in services in our part of [...] Crank – one of the newest bike shops in Portland . . . almost to Burnside a block off SE 28th on Ash. Run by two great young guys, Chris and Justin, this place is, as the word on Yelp says, unpretentious, super helpful and affordable. If any of these brands are on your wish [...] 
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 [...] This is the story of over wrapped shoes and under wrapped finances . . . the story of estate sales and lawyers, whimsy and wonder. If through it all you find some valuable resources for your family and an angle on shopping you hadn’t quite thought about in a while. . . then this tale [...] The more I get to know our local businesses in SE Portland, the more reasons I have to brag with complete assurance about what a treasure they all are to our community. I had a friend who worked in management for Sears who would entertain us with stories about executive directives to do things like [...] If your email account works anything like mine, you’re probably inundated this time of year with “gift giving ideas” from every source that has your address. No doubt you’ve been promised deep discounts, free shipping and whole number of other things. Ironic, I suppose, that the season that celebrates our dearest connections with family and [...] |
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