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Reading Frenzy
Four kids’ lit experts help us put together a summer reading list of books by local authors. Warm up those library cards!
Free Wheeling
As summer road-trip season officially begins, we offer three classic car games to assuage family feuding and make the pavement fly by.
Home Alone
Ah, summer camp: your time to play while the kids are away. These three sizzling dates will ensure that little Johnny isn’t the only one having an adventure.
Rock ’n’ Roll Mama
Pink Martini’s China Forbes talks about life as a new mom, finding the coolest diaper bag, and her choice of minivans.
By Brian Barker
Your Family’s Ultimate Guide to Summer
There are 82 days in summer vacation.
Edited by Kasey Cordell and Rachel Ritchie
The Essential Summer Camp Handbook
Everything you need to find the perfect camp for your kid
By Kristy Holland, Tracy Howard, and Julie Taylor
Loving Ezra
In a bicoastal struggle to find a place to raise their special son, a family ends up where they started; Portland.
By Kerry Cohen
Wired Science
In one OHSU study, even the smallest actions of older Portlanders may yield critical clues about how we age.
By Tom Colligan
Golden Age
Country club or retirement home? At Terwilliger Plaza, sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
By Randy Gragg
The New Old
As Portland's senior population grows, local scientists, entrepreneurs, and renegade citizens are redefining what it means to age in style.
By Randy Gragg, Tom Colligan, and Camas Davis
Vital Signs
If you must grow old (and sorry, you must), you may be in the right place.
By Camas Davis
Double Duty
BlackBerry in one hand, bottle in the other, Portland moms give birth to new businesses.
By Anna Hirsh
Mother's Helper
Award-winning doula Christy Hall talks about jailhouse births, modern feminism, and the postpartum watercooler.
By Randy Gragg
The Parents' Survival Guide
How to get your child from recess to the real world and keep everyone's nerves intact.
Edited by Sally Powers
Best of the City 2008
Dig into our surefire, gotta-get-cracking, must-do list of the city's most fabulous people, places, and things.
Edited by Brian Barker
Mommies Know Best
Nearly 20 years after the seminal children's book Heather Has Two Mommies was published, sociologists have begun to ask, "Do gay parents have it better?" Here in Portland, many same-sex couples say the answer is yes.
Checked Out
If you’ve looked around your school library lately, you may have noticed something missing. Namely, the librarian.
Swing Blade
At the peak of Little League season, one mother hits a home run all the way to Crazy Town.
By Pam Grimes
The Spirit of St Louis
At 2,000 feet, a daughter catches sight of the sublime Northwest landscape and her father's former life.
By Sally Powers
Labor of Love
After five unsuccesful inseminations and four birthmothers, a parent is born.
By Stacy Bolt
Proving Grounds
What does it take to bridge the chasm between a father and the man who is sleeping with his daughter?
By Randy Gragg
Mighty Mom
American Gladiators inductee Monica Carlson talks about the fantasy—and the reality—of pummeling burly women.