St. John’s Swap N Play

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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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 [...]

… 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… [...]

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. [...]

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… [...]

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 [...]

Correction: Sunflower repaint is on Sunday May 30, 10am-4pm, SE 33rd & Yamhill http://bit.ly/dCAByv

One of City Repair Village Building Convergence’s longest standing events is just two blocks away from our co-op at the Sunnyside Piazza at 33rd and Yamhill. Help our co-op member, Suzanne Tom, repaint the sunflower, weather permitting, Sunday May 30, 10am – 4pm. Help cleaning the intersection is also welcome. Cleaning is today 10am [...]

As a town that appreciates cottage industries (especially if they brew beer) and celebrates living locally, we may want to consider adopting Bea Weiss-Krull’s home town Tuttlingen Germany as our sister city.

Her part of Germany is known as the world headquarters for precision medical instruments making . . . but before you start [...]