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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

Need Summer Camp Info? JO Wilson PTA’s DC Camp Fair is 1/25!

HEY PARENTS! If you don’t know where to find all the summer camp information and, even though it’s still winter, you’re starting to fret about the kids’ summer plans, join the J. O. Wilson PTA for their 4th Annual Summer Camp Fair. At the Annual Summer Camp Fair, you can get information from over 40 camp […]

Updates from your ANC Commissioners

We periodically share updates from your ANC commissioners, edited for brevity and clarity. Although these are most pertinent to particular single member districts (SMDs), we feel the information shared can be of interest to the whole Capitol Hill community. Are you an ANC commissioner who shares regular updates? Please add maria@thehillishome.com to your distribution list.–María […]

Holiday Gift Focus: Antiochia Home Linens

Since gift guides are extremely popular this year and our friends at Eastern Market Main Street shared a very comprehensive one with us, we decided to focus on a few of our favorite businesses and give you shopping ideas. Enjoy! During a recent windy Saturday, I ducked into one of our newest shops around Eastern […]

Draw The Circle at Mosaic: Unflinching and Honest

Mosaic’s newest show, Draw the Circle, is intimate, raw, honest and uncomfortable. The discomfort is not a negative: As a matter of fact, it is the perfect note to strike in these intense, crazy times. How does it feel: being uncomfortable in your own skin? Knowing that, deep inside, you are not the person everyone […]

D.C. Gov’t WILL Stay Open Even if Fed Shuts Down

Eleanor Holmes Norton, our D.C. delegate, is always looking out for us. Even though outfits such as Newsweek seem to think it’ll be unlikely we’ll head into a shutdown on Friday December 8, the possibility always lingers. While most people aren’t affected directly by this process– unless they work for the Federal Government– D.C. residents […]

Maria Helena Carey

Kids:

Need Summer Camp Info? JO Wilson PTA’s DC Camp Fair is 1/25!

ANC:

Updates from your ANC Commissioners

Shopping:

Holiday Gift Focus: Antiochia Home Linens

Arts & Entertainment:

Draw The Circle at Mosaic: Unflinching and Honest

Local Politics:

D.C. Gov’t WILL Stay Open Even if Fed Shuts Down