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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

Freshman on The Hill

Moving to DC from the West Coast, I found it a nice surprise to know that there was a Safeway supermarket in our neighborhood. After all, Safeway, I reasoned, is a West Coast kind of thing, right? It would be just like grocery shopping back home, in a store with familiar brands and labels and […]

Freshman on The Hill

Capitol Hill is like glue– it keeps a community together and it keeps people coming back. When I first moved here, I made friends with a local blogger who, unbeknownst to me at the time, had ties binding him to the Hill. I asked him to share some of his favorite memories with me. One […]

Freshman on The Hill

Photo by María Helena Carey One of the quaint things about moving to a place like the Hill is that you get the feeling that you live in a very small village. Of course, it would be a small village with access to excellent cultural events, world-class dining and where you can meet not just […]

Freshman on The Hill

When my family and I arrived in Capitol Hill, Mary Donovan was the first person we met. Mary has lived on the Hill for thirty years. For her, moving to the neighborhood back in ’79 made sense– she and her husband wanted to be in the city and cut down on commuting. Some of her […]

Freshman on The Hill

I, like so many other people who call Capitol Hill home, am not from around here. I will pause for a second and let you take that one in– I know! You’ve never heard that one before, huh? A comment I kept hearing early on about DC is that you know you’re in DC when […]