Community

If you follow the hashtag #CommunityMatters on Twitter you will see many posts from charity organizations. There are pictures of successful fundraisers, and references to the non-profit CommunityMatters.org, an anti-bullying organization that promotes safety at schools. You will even find a publishing company that works…

I’m scrolling through Facebook (it IS my job, after all!) and I stop at an intriguing question posed by Reverend Angela Henderson over at First Unitarian Universalist. In one brief sentence, she asks the almighty Facebook community, What is hospitality to you…? What a great…

Brands must become architects of community. – Simon Mainwaring A few weeks ago I attended an event centered around bloggers and how the community interacts with them. At this event, I met and fell in love with local Houstonian and lifestyle expert Nicole Kestenbaum. On…

Labor Day is a yearly national tribute to the contributions workers have made to the strength, prosperity, and well-being of our country. It is a day that parades are thrown and the people who toil to make this country great take a day of rest…

We are a community that comes together in a time of crisis. When we see that one of our own is in trouble we are there for them. When someone in our community passes away, we rally around and bring food. When someone is sick,…

We celebrate our children.  We hope they are sensitive and strong, smart and funny, insightful and thoughtful and creative and independent.  As a parent, we spend our lives praying that the job we do helps them to turn out to be the best that they…