When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 35 - I listened to Pan Jive in the shade and cool breeze.
As the saying goes people do not leave companies, people leave people. It is no fun to go to work everyday feeling like a complete outsider.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 34 - I visited with band Taste of Red at the Redeye Studio.
This sweltering Belmont Shore heat makes me want to clear my head a bit...Larry King style.
When so few qualified people vote or vote intelligently, we truly do get the government (and the elected representatives) we deserve.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 33 - I visited Long Beach's Retro Row.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 32 - I made Lemonade with some new and existing small biz owners!
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 31 - Sharing good Karma and LB lemonade with friend and amazing high school biology teacher Mary Simun.
A Patch blogger gets to attend the red carpet reception for the new California Women's Conference coming to Long Beach in September, and she is extremely excited!
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 30 - I made a simple wood block for stamping on fabric.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 29 - Danny Tsoi-A-Sue, who sews up a storm for himself and makes Lemonade by sewing for his friends.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 28 - I made Spaghetti in Meatballs and spoke to my sister about her fun day (while watching her budget) in Long Beach.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 27 - The International Quilt Festival at Long Beach Convention Center is a no-miss show!
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 26 - Loads of quilt art, Seal Beach Guild, Mistyfuse maker, Toothbrush needles, new quilt pattern, Cuttlebug.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 25 - Einstein Brown and Derek Brewster,of Reggae/Soca band Upstream (strong ties to Trinidad music royalty), teach 'pan'.
Early Long Beach builders had to be creative, crafty, and quick on their feet. Merton and Winifred Cutting made a good team.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 24 - We limboed to the sounds of Pan Jive, talked to Ms. Schipske and found a new free tour offered by the Port.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 23 - I went for the WPA, and I got a huge bonus, an exploration into Long Beach Art Deco with J. Christopher Launi.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 22 - I can see the beach, I can hear the steel drum.
There's a growing trend, in today's economy, to drop alarm monitoring from the family budget. But there is a way, to monitor your home security system yourself.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 21 - I'm on the trail of the Sweet Sounds of Pan (steel drum)
When a co-worker says, "Where are you coming from?" They are not asking about your birthplace or recent travels. They want to understand your perspective. Do YOU understand YOUR perspective?
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 20 - I was an accidental tourist and discovered some interesting facts about Historic Downtown Long Beach!
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 19 - I met a cool reuse artist, Yoshino Rosalia Jasso and some cool customers at the Long Beach Depot for Creative Reuse.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 18 - I was back at Convergence with wool in hand!
The cats of Belmont Shore have organized. Be afraid. Be very afraid.
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 17 - I visited the showroom floor of the Handweaver's Guild of America's Convergence 2012
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 16 - I visited a local hidden treasure, the Rancho los Cerritos.
All across Long Beach people are stumbling over clues to our city's history. Is it human nature - a reverse voyeurism - to want to spy on the secrets of the past?
When life gives you lemons, make Community Lemonade in Long Beach with me. Day 15 - I got an offer for help from a new friend, Roz Walker, and continued on the Fiber Trail.
Long Beach creators at San Diego Comic-Con are Day 14 of Making Community Lemonade in Long Beach, CA.
Long Beach store owner Mean Kim is most likely alive today because he took his right to own and carry a firearm seriously.
When life gives you lemons, please, please, make lemonade with me! Making Community Lemonade in Long Beach, CA. Day 11 - I dropped in on Friends of Bixby Park's Art Under the Umbrellas
Would you like to crash and burn in your new job? It's easier than you think. Just tell everyone how to do things and remind them that you're smarter than they are.
When life gives you lemons, please, please, make lemonade with me! Making Community Lemonade in Long Beach, CA. Day 12 - I visited with Mr. Robot, Walt Perko
When life gives you lemons, please, please, make lemonade with me! Making Community Lemonade in Long Beach, CA. Day 11 - I followed the trail of fiber to historic Rancho los Alamitos and to the LBMA.
When life gives you lemons, please, please, make lemonade with me! Making Community Lemonade in Long Beach, CA. Day 10 - I visited with the Cultural Alliance of Long Beach
When life gives you lemons, please, please, make lemonade with me! Making Community Lemonade in Long Beach, CA. Day 8 - I visited with 3D Photographer Barry Rothstein
When life gives you lemons, please, please, make lemonade with me! Making Community Lemonade in Long Beach, CA. Day 8 - I visited with Shared Science's Michelle Wells and Erik Elstad.
When life gives you lemons, please, please, make lemonade with me! Making Community Lemonade in Long Beach, CA. Day 7 - I visited the Wrigley area Dye Garden of Kathi R.