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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

Hill Gift Guide: For The Epicure

We all know someone who is a little obsessed by food. High-brow, low-brow: this person will eat his or her way out of a paper bag. This person may, in fact, eat the paper bag, if he or she comes across a good paper bag recipe. Sometimes, we may turn to this person for a […]

New York Also Thinks DC Looks Fat In Those Pants

Dear New York Times, We are so happy that our little neck of the woods inspired one of your stories today! Look at the happy patrons dining happily at Ted’s Bulletin! And DC-3! And Matchbox! You even got a picture of the homemade “silly” Pop-Tarts in their case! How does the saying go, that if […]

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 […]