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Kyra Deblaker-Gebhard

Kyra DeBlaker-Gebhard was a college English instructor and part-time writer living in New Jersey when the prospect of living a new and exciting life in Washington, D.C., presented itself. Kyra walked away from her job as a teacher and, with her new beau, discovered all of the wonderful things the District had to offer. Ten years later, Kyra is married to the guy she followed to D.C., mother of two charming, but messy children, caretaker of a small army of furry animals and proud owner of an ever-changing Capitol Hill home. When not tending to her human and furry family, Kyra is managing a website for a local non-profit, renovating her hill home and attending Nats games at Nationals Park.

Friends of the National Arboretum Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale

The Friends of the National Arboretum (FONA) Annual Garden Fair and Plant Sale features new, rare and hard-to-find plants, and this year’s sale also includes more than 600 books on horticulture, garden design and designers, landscape architecture and garden travel from the library of longtime FONA board member and garden designer Sally Boasberg, who passed […]

Special, Locally-Brewed Cherry Blossom Beer Served for a Limited Time On H Street

Less than a year ago Chocolate City Beer poured their first beer at a business on H Street. Now, to benefit H Street Main Street, the local brewers are making their latest brew exclusive to the neighborhood where they got their start. This Saturday, eight barrels of Sakura Washington, inspired by the 100th anniversary of […]

Did Someone Say Baseball?

It’s here, ladies and gentleman. Baseball season is here! From now until October, I will live, breathe and sleep baseball. I’m so dedicated to my team that I’ll do anything to avoid going into labor mid-August, during what could be a very interesting homestand at Nats Park. (Unless, of course, giving birth at the park […]

The Anti-Valentine's Day Date

Valentine’s Day is the pits! Sure for those people who are aged 13 to about 30 and in a new relationship Valentine’s Day is the most glorious, romantic day of the year, but for the rest of us—singletons, long-been marrieds and (the dreaded) married with kids—we know better. For the rest of us, Valentine’s Day […]

Things We Take for Granted: The Sidewalks and Streets of Capitol Hill

Let me start by saying that I am not out to prove that any one city can be better than another city. Rather, I came to realize something on a recent trip, and I have a forum — this blog and specifically the “Things We Take for Granted” column — in which I can share […]