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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

To Do From Home, Week of June 18, 2020

Hey there! I hope that, wherever you are, you are staying healthy and safe. Here are a few things for you to do this, uh, weekend. This is basically just a list of fun things you can do anytime, so pace yourself and enjoy. First off, tomorrow is June 19, also known as Juneteenth. The […]

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Good morning to all the neighbors working to wake up and become aware of the systemic racism that has oppressed so many of our neighbors– and to them only. Let’s talk for a brief moment about the video originally shared by the Hill Rag, showing a man in his 50s yelling at a group of […]

To Do From Home, Week of June 11

Yes, it’s true: I didn’t do a Hill Buzz this week. Frankly, after last week’s Hill Buzz — which you can read here– and with all the civil unrest going on, I realized I needed some time to do some #SelfCare, in the form of hanging out with my children (and nagging them, and making […]

To Do From Home: Week of June 4, 2020

We’ve made it to Thursday, also known in more innocent times as “Friday lite.” There is a lot of electricity in the air– from all the peaceful assembly and the empowerment and the solidarity. Don’t forget to be an ally every day! Have you supported a Black-owned business lately? How about watching Charles Allen’s Budget […]

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A little over a week ago, on the evening of May 25, 2020, a man called George Floyd paid for cigarettes with what appeared to be a counterfeit $20 bill. The employees of the Cup Store in Minneapolis, where he’d just purchased the cigarettes, confronted him but he was not forthcoming, so they called the […]

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