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Sharee Lawler

Sharee Lawler is a recovering political junkie. After many years of invoking the First Amendment right of a Fortune 100 company to petition the government for redress of grievances (aka, lobbying for Big Business), she got her MBA and left government affairs to to offer business strategy and communications consulting geared towards small businesses. She and her husband lived on the Hill for 12 years, during which time she was, variously, an entrepreneur, lobbyist, volunteer, student, gardener, jogger, cyclist and hostess of many a backyard barbecue. You can contact Sharee at ShareeTheHillIsHome [at] gmail [dot] com.

Yard Sale Open Thread

No better way to spend a long weekend than sitting on the front stoop early on a Saturday, drinking lemonade and making money off the stuff you don’t need anymore. If you’re having a yard sale this weekend, tell us the details in the Comments: the what, when and where. And good luck to all […]

Get Off My Parking Space!

At a recent dinner party, there was a lively conversation about the new multi-space parking meters that don’t actually seem to work a lot of the time. This, of course, devolved into complaints about the $20 in quarters you have to carry around in order to park for any length of time (7 minutes, really??). […]

Yard Sale Open Thread

Currently, my living room is host to three boxes, four garbage bags and a wicker basket full of clothes, tchotchkes and aspirational sporting goods for our yard sale this weekend. And I still have to get a couple of bins from the attic. It’s a yearly tradition with our neighbors — out with the old […]

Drumroll Please …

Eastern Market’s North Hall was vibrating with excitement, quite literally, on Tuesday evening. The Capitol Hill Community Foundation’s Great Grants Giveaway opened with a performance by two drummers from Step Afrika!. If you happened to be walking by, you couldn’t miss the all-encompassing beat, or the smiles of grantees. Each year in the spring and […]

Open House Round-Up

Looking for a unique home? Look no further than this converted carriage house at 210 10th St, SE. This house, along with four more pages of listings, will be open on Sunday for your viewing pleasure. Thanks to Phil for sending us the list!