Communitas in Pictures, featuring community leader and Bahalan, Maria Rodriguez.

The Ladies’ Literary Club of Ypsilanti, Michigan, still running 148 years later with over 100 members, owns a beautiful building where they hold twice-monthly meetings.

People want to do right by the workers who support their families, but they don’t always know how.

Santa Monica celebrated the Main Street Community Garden’s 50th anniversary by honoring the community garden that began in 1976 after residents advocated for dedicated urban gardening space. The event highlighted five decades of local stewardship with a morning of garden tours, music, and hands-on activities. Civic infrastructure rooted in shared green space!

The Early Childhood Task Force joined with SMPL and community partners to transform Virginia park into a farm!

LA Yarn Crawl

Festival of Books at USC

The act of making the cards is just as meaningful as receiving them. Rooted in principles similar to art therapy, the process invites participants to slow down, breathe, and create with intention.

See a sample of the beautiful plants, flowers, and trees we saw on the Native Garden Plant Tour organized by the Theodore Payne Foundation.

In Santa Monica, support for young children doesn’t begin and end with preschool enrollment. It’s part of a large community-wide effort that stretches from the earliest years of life into adulthood—a philosophy that recognizes when children thrive, the whole community benefits.

At the center of this work is the Santa Monica Early Childhood Task Force (ECTF), a coalition that brings together childcare providers, educators, parents, advocates, and civic leaders to strengthen the city’s early childhood landscape.

Residents consistently described the Library as a valued public institution that supports learning, connection, and belonging.

What happens when math becomes a measuring stick for intelligence rather than a tool for understanding the world?

We are all born with an intuitive sense of patterns, quantities, and relationships. The best version of math education builds on that inheritance, doesn’t suppress it.

Through every stage of her career—from stand-up to novels—the throughline has been humor.

“Who is the most powerful person in your kid’s life?” he often asks. “Once you recognize that, everything changes. How you set boundaries. How you respond.  How you help them learn through their choices.”

Can AI be your therapist, your creative twin, and your kid's homework buddy — all at once? This week, Deb, Jess and I recap the AI Community Dialogue we had on February 9th. We gauge the feelings and intents from the meeting, dig into the unresolved emotions we're still carrying from the social media era, lament the lack of education around our "information diets", and much more. Hope you enjoy!

The seed for the Garden Safaris walking tours sprouted from an online community group.

Yuriko knew most of the greats, was happily married to one, and continues to dance through her life.

Bahala’s founder, Carlo, in a discussion about the current state of AI is, how it works, and what it means for our lives in Episode #2.

Bahala’s Podcast is Here! Listen to Carlo and Deb speak about the Bahala experiment: a third space, reimagined.