Stories & Blog Posts
Neighboring with Kids
Finding Ways to Play: Royal Treatment Tuesday
Part of my neighboring life includes visiting friends in the assisted-living facility, adding a trip to Costco for a sick friend, or taking an injured neighbor to her physical therapy...
3 Things Trees Teach Us About Neighboring
Have you ever found yourself in some forest glade – maybe a patch of oaks along your evening walk, or a fleeting moment of solitude in the redwoods on a...
Un corazón, una comunidad
Cristina y su esposo llegaron a mi ciudad durante el invierno. Habían viajado un par de días en autobús para reunirse con su familia, pero se encontraron con la desagradable...
One Heart, One Community: A Community Closet Offers Hope
Cristina and her husband arrived in my city during winter. They had traveled for a couple of days by bus to reunite with their family, but they were met with...
Building Community with Book Sharing: 10 Ideas to Recycle and Reuse
My first step when going through this process is sorting. Sometimes I involve my kids (and sometimes it’s better to do it alone!). First, decide which books are still being...
Valentines for Justice
At last year’s Valentines for Justice party, our table was strewn with lace, heart stamps, glitter, fabric flowers, stickers, scented oils, scissors, tape and hot glue
The Time My Friends and I Threw a Party for No “Good” Reason (And why you should, too)
At the end of the summer of 2017, my friends and I threw a going-away party for an air conditioner. … Let me explain. Every summer, Southern California experiences a...
Leading In Your Neighborhood
Leadership in your neighborhood may be the most challenging step, of the ones we’ve discussed in this series, for you to take. Why? Because many people who love and care...
Loving Your Neighborhood
During the summer of 2024, my wife attended a local dance conference hosted in our community. She met a few people there who wanted to make dance more accessible for...
Learning Your Neighborhood
Happy New Year! Every year around this time, life is filled with hope and expectation. The possibilities seem endless. We’ve filled out vision boards, declared our resolutions, and committed that...
Doing What We Can, Stitch by Stitch
In talking about how to be a hopeful neighbor in these modern days, it can be easy to get bogged down in the greater turmoil of the world: A global...
A Solstice Invitation to Rest and Reset
Sometimes growth comes in the nighttime, just as sometimes the sunshine can burn you.