The last month has seen both of our cars in the shop multiple times. It has been frustrating to navigate our family’s needs and errands...

When I moved to St. Louis from Detroit a few years ago, I was eager to get connected in my new neighborhood. One of the first resources I...

I painted our house the other day. It’s a small, ranch-style house, so don’t get too impressed. My dad and father-in-law chipped in, too....

This past Sunday we hosted a gathering at our community garden. It was a time for neighbors to come together, help weed the plots,...

When I was a young child, I got in trouble a lot. And those were just the times I was caught. I’m thinking especially of the few years...

Each park in our city has a playground and oftentimes a water feature. A block from our house is our park, and it has a wading pool right...

I needed to shovel the snow for the third day in a row yesterday. I started to shovel in front of our house. Not long after I began...

Neighbors share a unique relationship due to their constant proximity to one another. When tensions arise, it often creates challenges...

If you’re trying to unite a neighborhood, it’s common that you will be working with two groups that are very different from each other in...

Over and over I have seen it proved true that neighbors are the best resources for one another. One morning a few months back I was...

You are strategically placed to love eight other families. Those eight families live in the three houses across the street, the three...

I stood outside in a dark alley in January. It was Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. A 21-year-old Black man was shot three days prior. My...

I saw it before I made it up the stoop. There was a gift bag with pretty paper sticking out the top and a decorative tag dangling from...

We live in a little hundred-year-old Tudor house on the north side of Minneapolis. Our second story is a one-bedroom mother-in-law...

One of the difficulties in building a hopeful neighborhood is that most neighborhoods are divided by skin color, economic level, culture,...

Walking has always been a way for folks to get outside, move their bodies, stay healthy, walk their dogs, and take young kids on a...