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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.

Get Your 15 Minutes …

Next weekend, on March 6th and 7th, the St. Mark’s Players will be holding auditions for Oliver! It is a musical adaptation of Charles Dickens’ novel, Oliver Twist, about an orphan that falls in with a band of pickpockets. Performances will be the first three weekends in May. The organizers are looking to cast all […]

A Quotable Orestes at Folger

Let’s establish a couple of things right from the start: in the days prior to seeing Orestes, a Tragic Romp at the Folger Theater I had, for the first time, seen Milk and attended opening night of Richard II at the Shakespeare Theater. Both were wonderful, but I had more than my fill of the […]

Community Meetings This Week On Plans for Barracks Row Area

According to Barracks Row Main Street, two community meetings will take place this week that focus on 8th Street, SE and the surrounding area. Tomorrow is the final meeting for the Lower 8th Street Visioning Exercise, which seeks to create a comprehensive vision for this area connecting Barracks Row Main Street with the Capitol Riverfront […]

Open House Round-Up

You know you’ve lived somewhere for a long time when you relate to things in terms of what they “used to be”. You know … like that spot that used to be a seedy liquor store with drunk people sitting outside sipping from their 40’s but is now fancy condos? Well I remember when the house pictured […]

Learn Beekeeping at Sherwood Recreation Center

Beginning Monday, DC Parks and Recreation is hosting a four course series on Urban Beekeeping at Sherwood Recreation Center, 640 10th Street, NE. (Pre-registration required. Contact Kelly.Melsted [at] dc.gov to reserve your space.) The classes, on February 22nd, March 1st, 8th and 15th, from 6:30-9 PM, will be taught by local beekeeper Toni Burnham. Uncertain […]