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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

Holiday Tastes: From My Snark to Yours

Let’s face it: sometimes the holidays bring out the worst in us. From having to cook for far too many ungrateful people, to having to mingle with people you feel should be accompanied by Novocaine, “relaxing” muzak and bloody gauze in your mouth because they are that painfully annoying, the holidays bring a cast of […]

Holiday Tastes: Tasty Bites

Although Thanksgiving has passed, many of us tend to use some of the same tasty tidbits and sides for Christmas and for holiday entertaining that they do use around the Thanksgiving holiday. If you want to try something new or are in a pickle about new ideas for the party season, a couple of our […]

Things We Take for Granted: The United States National Arboretum

Maybe I should start off this post by titling it, “Things we mostly take for granted, except for the azaleas.” After all, the azaleas are a very big draw to the facility in spring and people have nearly given themselves coronaries because the Arboretum is basically doing some drastic site maintenance. Anyway, at just a […]

First Bite: Ba Bay

When a new restaurant opens in your neighborhood– your beloved, cherished neighborhood which has had a bad reputation in the not-so-distant past, you wish it the best of luck. You go early in the game and explore it, enthusiastically order off the menu, in the hopes that it will make it and stick around. And […]

For the Joy of Theater: Julius Caesar at CHAW

Some of us love the theater. It’s more than just dialogue on paper: it’s an exhilarating feeling of imagining situations coming to life and of how to deliver them in a most powerful way. It’s the way the words convey so much more; the clever asides; the soliloquies exposing real motives, and the monologues conveying […]