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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

Food: The Gift That Keeps on Giving

Gift-giving: it’s hard. I don’t mean this to sound as the ultimate cop-out, but if you find a little relief in my words, so be it. Let me be clear: anyone can give a gift. But how many people can claim to have given a truly great gift, or have received one in return? Everyone […]

Freshman on The Hill: Everyday Hero (Sandwich)

Food is among the most primal creature comforts, and among the more hotly debated ones. Some people gravitate toward things that became the childhood trauma of others: I cannot explain what people would ever find delicious about marmite or kimchi; at the same time, I cannot believe that anyone would hate cilantro, fried blood sausage, […]

Freshman on The Hill: The Tree of Christmas Past

As you may have read on my holiday post, I used to hesitate getting a Christmas tree because trees get chopped down for a month’s worth of use and then they just get picked up and tossed in a landfill, in a seemingly senseless act of waste from our society. Yes, there is a small […]

To Tree or Not To Tree

I have a complicated relationship with Christmas trees. I think they are beautiful, but they are also a needly, sappy mess. I think they are stately, but it seems you must look very hard in order to find one that has a not-crooked top branch, to avoid that Charlie Brown look. I think they are […]

Freshman on The Hill

In the pantheon of mythical childhood figures, there is one that cannot be praised highly enough in Capitol Hill: Ms. Frances Slaughter. The first time I heard her name, there was an echo of reverence in the voice of the person who said it. As my son kept approaching the right age to join a […]