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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

Hill Buzz

You may as well call this week’s column Hill Swelter because the feels-like 100 degrees grossness is real. How are we keeping our cool this week? (Or, alternatively, what’s making us lose it?) In cautiously joyous news, baseball is back? Opening day is coming at us this Thursday, July 23, pitting the Nationals against the […]

To Do From Home, week of July 16, 2020

Hey everyone! Sure, it’s a heat emergency and public pools aren’t open, but at least there are showers and hoses and ice machines, am I right? What else can you do to keep it cool around here? Read on. First off, check out Congressional Chorus’s rendition of “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” because the lovely arrangement is […]

The Northeast Library closed Wednesday due to COVID

This morning, a tweet from reader Janna (@jannalibrarian on Twitter) made us sit up and take notice. She highlighted the following tweet from user Gabi, @gkhuesca, who is a children’s librarian: I reached out to her but have not heard back, so instead I talked to a library staffer from Northeast Library, who told me […]

Hill Miscellany

Hello everyone! Sometimes you come across many things that deserve sharing but they are not necessarily news. If this were another time, they’d all deserve their own post, but in the spirit of maximizing your attention span and mine, I’m tentatively starting a series called Hill Miscellany. I suppose it could just as well be […]

Meet the Candidates: David Krucoff

Hello there! In addition to all the COVID craziness, it’s also an election year. On November 3, we will be voting not just for President, but for many seats at the local level. One of those positions is that of the Delegate to the United States House of Representatives, currently held by Eleanor Holmes Norton, […]