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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

Your Very Last-Minute Mother’s Day Guide

By now you probably know, Sunday is Mother’s Day. Advertisers would have you think that this is the only day you are supposed to pencil in some time for mom. Wrong: After all, this is the woman who bore you, bored you, adopted you, took you under her wing, forced you to go get some therapy […]

The Set List, Week of 5/9/19

Hello, music fans! Looking to listen to a great array of eclectic music within walking (or biking/scootering) distance? Here you go! On and around the Hill: At Mr. Henry’s, 601 Pennsylvania Avenue SE, The Eddie Anderson Project, on Saturday, May 11, 2019. At Dangerously Delicious Pies, 1339 H Street NE,Knife Knights on Saturday, May 11, […]

Charles Allen’s Vision Zero Omnibus Bill: Discuss

Here at The Hill is Home, we have become amateur urban planners by dint of self-preservation. Once you start walking more, using more public transit and driving less, you start to realize that streets and entire cities need to be planned better. The streets belong to the pedestrian, the cyclist, the scooterer, and to anyone […]

Hill Buzz

Hello Capitol Hill, Ward 6 and all the areas that surround us, holding us in a loving embrace! Are you enjoying this spring SO MUCH?! This feels like some sort of beautiful reward for not doing much, so let’s keep enjoying. You’re not going to be enjoying spring with chicken, though. The Maryland Avenue Chick-Fil-A […]

TOMORROW! Bike to School Day!

Have you ever dreamed of a day where bikes take over the streets and our children can ride safely to school in a velocipede utopia? That day comes every May around these parts, and it’s tomorrow, May 8, starting at 7:30 a.m.!!!!! Bike to School Day, the yearly event put on by the Ward 6 […]