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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.

One Awesome and One Other Way to Support Congressional Cemetery

Do you know there are places in the country, including some right here in Washington, DC where the cemetery ISN’T a public gathering spot? Where kids don’t play, and dogs don’t run? That don’t have weekly tours and a sense of adventure and fun? Yeah, I don’t get it either. But we’re fortunate enough to […]

Yard Sales for the Weekend of April 27th

Cleaned out the attic and the basement? (Don’t forget, next weekend is the first Saturday of the month, aka hazardous materials drop off at Ft. Totten.) Make your trash someone else’s treasure. Of you’re having a yard sale this weekend, tell us about it in the comments. Happy bargain hunting!

Yard Sales for the Weekend of April 20th

The weather has been tumultuous this week! Perhaps that has given you time to be inside, cleaning out those closets If you’re having a yard sale this weekend, tell us all about it in the comments: where, when and what treasures to expect.

The Price of Awesome

Last week I told the sordid tale of our year-long search for a new house on the Hill that turned into a jaw-dropping education on how home prices have gone crazy. So crazy that we got priced out and are moving to (gasp!) Northwest. How did our little neighborhood become so pricey? Here’s what I […]

Is Capitol Hill too Awesome?

Not possible, right? How could our neighborhood be too amazing, too spectacular, too much fun?? Well, all those things mean buying a house is also getting too expensive. Last March, my husband and I started looking for a new house and we were adamant about wanting to stay on the Hill. We had outgrown the […]