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Haunted houses, corn mazes, ghost tours, and every confirmed spooky-season party in Portland this fall. Here's the full 2026 Halloween guide, mapped out month by month so you can plan now.

I'm a full-time single mom outfitting a five-year-old who outgrows clothes every six weeks. Here's why digging through the Goodwill Outlet bins became my whole strategy for his school wardrobe, and why it isn't a last resort. It's just doing the math.

Nobody warns you about the list. Not the school supply list, the other one. The one that shows up in your bank account over three weeks in August and doesn't have a name, just a slow, steady bleed until you check your balance and think 'when did I become a person who flinches at Target

Nobody tells you that making friends as an adult is basically dating, except worse. Here's what a year of misses, awkward mom groups, and one very stubborn follow-up text taught me about actually building a village from scratch.

I tell myself every August I'm going to 'get out more,' then I spend three weeks eating popsicles over the sink so my kid doesn't see. This year I actually looked up what's happening in this city instead of complaining nothing does. Turns out a lot happens. I just never leave the house long enough to notice