It seems as soon as spring enters the picture, after we’ve been couch potatoes over the winter months, life gets really busy. For the last few weeks, I feel like life has been moving at a marathon pace, but though I’m in the same race, I’m running a 5K and barely keeping up. The last […]
For the most part, I hate winter. I hate grey days, I hate snow, but mostly, I hate that the farmers markets are for the most part non-existent. I love the minute the farmers markets are back, and I love spending my Saturdays pursuing them for the fabulous locally grown produce. My brain goes into […]
Guest post by Joe Weedon Over the weekend, DCPS Interim Chancellor Kaya Henderson and several members of her senior leadership team joined Councilman Tommy Wells at Eastern High School to present and discuss the state of Ward 6 schools. As Hill residents know, our public schools, at all levels, have undergone a dramatic transition over […]
As a child, (this, of course, when being sun-smart was non-existent), one of my summer memories is playing in my grandparents’ pool as my aunt chose to stay on land in a swimsuit that exposed more than it covered as she coated herself in baby oil and let the sun bake her. Now, there are […]
Please welcome guest author Don Montouri. Don has been the race director of the Capitol Hill Classic 10K for several years. –MHC ___________ On May 15, when the last runner crosses the finish line of the Capitol Hill Classic 10k, a 32-year-old Hill tradition could come to an end. This could very well be the […]