‘Tis the season for celebration, gathering, and the potential for endless to-do lists and chronic stress! Once the music starts playing in the stores and the toy catalogs are delivered in the mail, my anxiety tends to ramp up....
Whether you're Irish or not, Portland is a fantastic place to be on St. Patrick's Day. Between our growing number of Irish pubs and popular community events, you will find plenty of ways to celebrate. Since the holiday falls...
I try to sort through and purge some of our belongings at least once a season, and I make a special point of doing a serious pre-holiday purge. If you're like me, Goodwill and The Salvation Army are your...
Groundhog Day is a special holiday for my family, with a memorable, fun tradition from my childhood.
The telephone would ring several times before it was answered. I could visualize my grandma making her way through her apartment to where the black rotary...
We all know 2020 has been a whopper of a year. Now more than ever, it’s important to support our local business community during the holidays by spending our dollars close to home. For the 2020 edition of our #shopPDX...
Every year after the holidays I am overcome with this intense urge to purge and donate all of our belongings. There’s nothing like reading the articles about making do with less “stuff” (while being bombarded with non-stop advertising), paired with...
The holidays are simply bursting with magic and fun: cookies, gifts, Zoo Lights , kids’ letters to Santa (my 6-year-old just wrote “I hope you give me a present with a puppy in one of them” to the Big Guy. Sorry,...
We celebrated moms meeting their kids for Mother's Day, and now it's time for the dads! I can't speak on behalf of dads because, well, I'm not one. But, I have watched a number of the men in my life...
Fall is in the air again in the Pacific Northwest. Cool, crisp mornings, beautiful sunny days, and changing colors across the landscape. To make it easier on you, we’ve collected some of our favorite autumn-themed posts in to one...
My family rarely dresses up in family costumes. The closest we've ever gotten is when my boys wanted to be Harry Potter and his owl, Hedwig. So, I did my take on Dolores Umbridge. I thought the cat brooch...
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