Message from the Executive Director

It was a momentous day in Garfield yesterday – the street in front of our house was paved. You see, Garfield has many streets and sections of streets that are…

I hope everyone is having a relaxing and enjoyable summer! My family is back from vacation, I am over my jetlag (mostly), and although we enjoyed being across the pond,…

Summer is most definitely upon us (despite a recent Saturday here where the high didn’t even reach 60). Kids are out of school, and it’s vacation month. And I want…

Whenever my husband asks me if I want the good news first, or the bad news, I always respond, “bad news.” My preference is to take the hit and move…

A fire station, a lawnmower, and a mammoth walk into a bar (just kidding, a mammoth wouldn’t fit in a bar). These are seemingly random, totally unrelated things. But not…

These days, I feel a bit like Ross Geller holding the couch on the stairway in an episode of Friends, repeatedly shouting “pivot!” I’ve been debating about when to share…

If ever there was a time to play the drum roll app on your phone, this is it (if you don’t have it, I highly recommend downloading it…you will use…

Community work is, I’ve realized, a little like getting ketchup out of a glass bottle. You’re working away, trying to break things loose, waiting…full of anticipation (cue classic commercial jingle)…

Timing is everything – whether you’re baking a cake, trying to hop on a moving merry go-round (do those still exist?), or figuring out how to replace a crumbling but…

It seems appropriate, on a rare day when the sun is shining brightly outside my office window, to talk about our latest endeavor with the wonderful folks at ZEN. We…