What does it look like to design a home and garden around community? In this Q&A, we explore how one East Van gardener has done exactly that. The…
Read more How One Gardener Designed Her Home for Sharing – Garden TherapyMeetup apps are springing up left and right, promising you friendship in a time when many people struggle to build new connections. After attending multiple meetups, I can…
Read more I Had Dinner With Over 100 Strangers. Here’s What I Learned – Garden TherapyTHORNTON, Colo. — In performance spaces around Denver, laughter mixes with tears as a group of older adults sing, dance, and tell stories that hit close to home…
Read more ‘Ain’t Done Just Yet’ brings Broadway spirit — and big life lessons — to older adult communitiesX is experimenting with a new way for AI to write Community Notes. The company is testing a new “collaborative notes” feature that allows human writers to request…
Read more X’s latest Community Notes experiment allows AI to write the first draftWhen I was working with refugees in Lebanon and Turkey and the Iraqi crisis, Rwanda, other places—you know, when everything’s taken away from you, God is all you…
Read more A Theology of ImmigrationThe Western Amputee Golf Association (WAGA) is a nonprofit organization dedicated to bringing golf and its community to amputees and golfers with special needs across eleven Western states,…
Read more Western Amputee Golf Association brings game, community to adaptive golfersWithout a doubt, community is invaluable. But in this day and age, you have to build it. Luckily, you have a community just waiting to come together right…
Read more 10 Steps to Building the Community You Don’t Have (Yet) – Garden TherapyThe charred remains of the historic Pacific Palisades Business Block cast a shadow over a once-bustling shopping district along West Sunset Boulevard. Empty lots littered with debris and…
Read more Abandoned shops and missing customers: Fire-scarred businesses are still stuck in the aftermathSAINT JOHN’S PROGRAM FOR REAL CHANGE HAS IMPROVED THE LIVES OF SACRAMENTO AREA WOMEN AND CHILDREN. THE NONPROFIT PROVIDES A SAFE PLACE TO LIVE AND AN ARRAY OF…
Read more Saint John’s Program for Real Change offers hope to Sacramento women and childrenThe key to making friends with your neighbours starts with your front yard. Truly! By making your front yard garden a welcoming space, you’ll feel inspired to get…
Read more Simple Front Yard Garden Ideas to Revitalize Community – Garden TherapyA man who found solace in sunsets while caring for his ill wife finds a way to bring that peace to others. A teen collects turkeys ahead of…
Read more The Uplift: Stunning sunsets and a teen and his turkeysOn the Shelf American Reich: A Murder in Orange County, Neo-Nazis, and a New Age of Hate By Eric LichtblauLittle Brown and Company: 352 pages, $30 If you…
Read more Yes, Orange County has always had a neo-Nazi problem. A new deeply reported book explains whyChief Peter Newsham says crime is down in Prince William County, but staffing and recruitment remain key challenges heading into 2026. Having seen a 11% decrease in overall…
Read more With crime down, Prince William Co. Police Chief Newsham looks ahead – WTOP NewsMore than 200 students at Legends Academy Charter School are facing uncertainty after the school’s board voted to close the Orlando campus just weeks before students are set…
Read more Charter school to close after nearly 25 years, leaving 200+ students searching for new schoolsKwanzaa has become a nationally recognized celebration of African culture and community in the United States since its founding in 1966, and also is celebrated in countries with…
Read more A beginner’s guide to KwanzaaOXNARD — A father who has become the sole caretaker for his two young children after his wife was deported. A school district seeing absenteeism similar to what it experienced…
Read more Families reeling, businesses suffering six months after ICE raided Ventura cannabis farmsOn Sunday, two gunmen killed at least fifteen people at Bondi Beach, in Sydney, Australia, in an attack that targeted the country’s Jewish community as it began its…
Read more In the Wake of Australia’s Hanukkah Beach MassacrePolice responded to an active shooting Saturday on campus at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, according to the school’s alert system. Police said there were multiple gunshot…
Read more Active shooter at Brown University; Police confirm multiple people shot, no suspect in custodyPolice responded to an active shooting Saturday on campus at Brown University in Providence, according to the school’s alert system. Police said there were multiple gunshot victims.Earlier, the…
Read more Active shooter at Brown University; Police confirm multiple people shot, no suspect in custodyPresident Trump on Saturday said that the airspace surrounding Venezuela should be considered closed, ratcheting up tensions with the Maduro regime and offering yet another sign that he…
Read more Trump Declares That Airspace Around Venezuela Should Be Considered Closed