Maria Helena Carey, Author at The Hill is Home

Maria Helena Carey

María Helena Carey has always liked to write, tell stories and take pictures but it wasn’t until she moved to the Nation’s Capital that she began exploring all three in a serious manner. She loves poking around Capitol Hill and photographing some of her favorite things: food, her kids, quirky little dogs and cats, and Capitol Hill façades. She is also a portrait photographer and you can see her work at http://mariahelenacarey.com You can contact her at Maria@thehillishome.com

In Case You Missed It: The H Street Festival in Photos

Another glorious, chaotic, LOUD, amazing and downright homey H Street Festival is in the books and, as with every year, I find myself deeply grateful that I live within walking distance of one of the festivals that contains the distilled essence of the District of Columbia. And what is that essence? I will try to […]

Our fall yard sale IS BACK! Haul-O-Ween: The Spookening is happening October 17

Hey there, neighbors! Need to cull your wardrobe and make space for winter? Gotta purge summer essentials? Want to sell house plants because your green thumb cannot be stopped? Need to bake and sell something delicious and donate your proceeds to fight fascism? Whatever you need to do to connect with neighbors and your community, […]

The To Do List, Week of September 18, 2026

Okay silly billies: If you didn’t know, THE H STREET FESTIVAL IS HAPPENING TOMORROW!!!! Now it its TWENTY-FIRST YEAR (how?!), the festival emcompasses all of our beautiful, wonderful, hippy, happy, hoppin’ H Street, from 3rd Street to 15th Street NE. The festival goes from noon to 7 p.m. and it’s just block after block after […]

Two ways to find community on the Hill

As a long-time resident of the Hill–– although to some, twenty years is nothing, but I digress–– I sometimes take for granted just how many people I know, and, more importantly, how many people who *know* people I know. (Two words: Sandra Moscoso. #iykyk) So if you are new around the Hill and you want […]

Hill Buzz, September 16, 2026

To all my Mexican brothers and sisters, I wish you all a happy Independence Day! What is going on around the Hill and the District? Read on. Every monumental view up to this point was clearly missing one element: GARAGES. Thank goodness, we’ll be getting two of these brutalist (?) beauties to accommodate 6,000 cars […]