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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

A Cherry Blossom festival of sorts

Spring brings out the crazy in all of us. Recently, my older son and I were taking a walk, when we ran into Tasha and two of her neighbors on Seventh Street, SE, who were having entirely too much fun with the deluge of petals from a particularly majestic Kwanzan cherry tree that dominates the […]

Help Find Copper!

Hey neighbors! Keep your eyes peeled for a sweet doggie named Copper, who recently escaped his new owners’ home in Hill East. Copper fled from 18th and A, SE on April 3rd. Since then, he’s been tracked in Anacostia, but has not yet been found. If you have any information, call the numbers printed on […]

Things We Take for Granted: The Time I Ran Out of Diapers…

….and it was horrible! Poop was imminent, eminent, and, frankly, emanating. And it was late and I started to kind of freak out because, really, who is a responsible parent and runs out of diapers?! (You cloth-diapering mothers get to stand back and pat yourselves in the back with a saintly and smug expression… until […]

Fun for your Humpday: Did you vote?

Here’s hoping you got your civic duty on yesterday and voted. Your city needs you! I know it’s easy to become jaded with the electoral process, and indulge in the feeling that your vote does not count: many an argument has probably begun with someone giving their impassioned rally cry to engage in the electoral […]

Fun For Your Humpday: Are You a Slut?

Oh, Rush…. what would we do without you? Well, surely we would do many things, all of them pleasurable; but let’s face it: we wouldn’t be laughing right now. Because I am about to share a few LOLs with you on Putting Down Rush 101. First, this gem from Kathleen Parker’s excellent column from Sunday: […]