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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

Want to Learn More About Smart Meters? There's a Meeting for That!

I admit it: whenever my electrical bill comes, I am always baffled as to how my household is capable of using/spending/wasting THAT MUCH energy in just one month– even in the months where there is no air conditioning and there is no need to leave the lights on a lot, lest you never get out […]

Fun For Your Humpday: A Little Elvis, Anyone?

Yes, it’s Wednesday. But you know what’s giving me much mirth to blow over the mid-week blahs? An old Elvis movie on Turner Movie Classics — who knew? And because this is a DC blog, I cannot just tell you that you should tune in to TCM and watch yourself one, too, without somehow making […]

Murder Mystery Party at Labyrinth

If there were nothing fun and exciting about murder mysteries, let us face it, Agatha Christie would have just been another early 20th century romance novelist–which she actually also was, writing under the name Mary Westmacott– but we digress. But there is much to love about an opportunity to use your cunning, logic and scheming, […]

The To Do List

Alrighty people: these amazing, mild-weathered weekends are not going to last forever. This weekend is going to be magical, hovering around 68 and 70 degrees unless Accuweather is lying mercilessly to me— and if so, HOW DARE YOU, ACCUWEATHER?! Here are the things you should highly consider doing, in order to increase your happiness this […]

Fun for Your Humpday: Mayor Fun

Hey there people! Earlier today I was chatting with an acquaintance and the subject of our venerable mayor, Mr. Vincent Gray, rolled around. Specifically, that while Mayor Gray can cut quite a dashing figure at 68, he can also look puzzlingly like, well…. let’s just say that sometimes I half-expect to see him laugh in […]