In this WLLB blog post we had the privilege to interview SoCO neighbor Darlene Martin, who hosted her very first neighbor event in her front driveway last Friday for the South of Conant neighborhood’s weekly-monthly Front Yard Friday celebration. Thank you Darlene for being a leader on your block. I hope you get to experience […]
In the Fall of 2013 we had a crazy idea. What if we could create new rhythms of neighborliness centered around the four seasons? These rhythms could be easy on ramps to get to know new neighbors, and regularly reconnect with neighbors we already knew. Generally holidays like Easter, Thanksgiving, and Christmas are centered around […]
I recently had the opportunity to interview Christine Gibson, one of the co-founders of the SoCo Neighbors group about their fresh approach to enlivening neighborliness in the South of Conant Neighborhood. The hope of this interview is to show residents what “relationship centered” neighborhood associations can unleash in every neighborhood in Long Beach. We hope […]
Going door to door on your block and inviting neighbors to your front yard for a Citywide Event is not easy. We know that going up to a neighbor’s door, who is a stranger, can be one scariest things a person can do. It can be even scarier than public speaking, snakes, and spiders. One […]
By Scott Jones I asked my wife recently if she would rather me be “for” her or “with” her? She thought about it for a second, and told me hands down, one hundred percent that she would rather have me be “with” her. When We Love Long Beach launched in 2008, we set out on a […]