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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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 [...] Last October and again this January I wrote a Roost Sponsor email all about our new neighbor Green Micro Gym that has opened up right off Belmont just past Hoda’s Restaurant on 34th with the same code keypad we use on the front door and that great spirit of co-operative community that helps keep it all lower cost [...]
If you have ambitions to ditch the car to become a bike only commuter, are ready to get more exercise or are getting excited about more family bike outings when the sun starts shining . . . this is the know-your-neighbor post with the things to know.
Everything [...] Fresh off of hosting a carnival held in a gym inside a church filled with trapezes and a swap shop, I am sitting down at my computer figuring out how to best describe some doctors with classes and acupuncture and warm cups of tea in an Herb Shoppe .
With the main parts of the growing season behind us, we have a whole new set of reasons to visit our neighborhood hardware store. Sure there are the year round trips for plumbing and other maintenance items, but we are also just at the beginning of the weatherizing season. I don’t know if you’ve [...] People say that everything we need to know we learned in kindergarten. It think there is a corollary . . . everything we need to know about helping our kids with transitions, we can learn from observing what goes on at a great preschool. With my office right outside of the main entry/exit doors of [...] 
I don’t know how it is in your house, but in our world ever since my oldest was two it’s been Halloween every month of the year. First there was just a whole lot of dress up going on and then . . . the talking and planning started. “Mom, guess what I’m going to [...] On the first real sunny day in a good long while, it’s a lot easier to look forward to vacation plans and believe that summer, that fabulous Northwest summer, is really coming our way. If your summer plans include one or more of those all American road trips, you might also like to include a [...] |
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