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2008
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I drive past the Riverview Cemetery on Taylor's Ferry Road several times a week. Several of my great, greats are buried there, I always think of them, the Langworthys and Fosses. I've looked for and found their grave sites. It is a little uncanny to look at a mossy headstone, see names and dates...
10/30/2008
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We've a saying in Portland, "it's a really small place." You never know when you'll run into some one you know. And as for six degrees of separation, it's small enough that we are really only about three degrees, maybe fewer, of separation. It's not unusual to meet someone and during the initial...
10/25/2008
Flashback to summer, 2005. I've been back in Portland for about a year. I'm having coffee with a new friend and her friend, a real estate agent. We're talking about staging and organizing as a career and if the agent might be refer people to us. I need a job. I had been an Organization Develo...
10/13/2008
I got a catch-up email from my good friend, Lynn, the other day. She's a member of a dragon boat team made up of breast cancer survivors, located in the Capital Region of Upstate NY. She says she is loving being a part of the group. Here's what she says about the Dragon Boat team and why they do ...
10/08/2008
Went to Hopworks Urban Brewery - HUB - the other day. And I'm totally impressed. Not only is it the first eco-brewpub in the Northwest, they've done it fantastically well! Housed in the old Sunset Fuel Company's building on SE 30th and Powell, it was a gut rehab to end all gut rehabs. Thick co...
10/05/2008
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The work crew had to dig out a portion of the dirt floor - it's a crawl space under my house - in order to pour the new foundation. I was amazed at what they found. A brown bottle with Purex etched on the surface, filled with burnt wooden matches, water and sludge. I had an image of a teenager...
10/01/2008
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Alexsandra Stewart
Broker - Portland Oregon Real Estate
