Instead of decorating a Christmas tree with traditional ornaments, a neighborhood in Vista, California, comes together to do something a little different: decorate an ash tree with handwritten notes.

Instead of decorating a Christmas tree with traditional ornaments, a neighborhood in Vista, California, comes together to do something a little different: decorate an ash tree with handwritten notes.

UB sophomore Kerry Sherman can feel the shift in campus demeanor as she walks inside the Student Union. There’s the familiar buzz of students, faculty and staff returning to campus after 18 months of ...

The tree comes with 100 leaf-shaped sticky notes (generic Post-it notes in autumnal colors) as well as a Dry Erase marker (for gratitude musings to write directly on the poster).

“I made a sign, put around 100 blank tags on our lemon tree and then we went out of town for a few days,” Clara said. “And when we came back, the tags were all filled in.