I’ve always loved the month of August. First, it’s the month that I was born, and until recently I made my birthday celebrations week-long events. It’s also the month that kids and adults alike head back to school. As a kid, advertisements encouraging families to buy new school wardrobes and school supplies (hello, Trapper Keepers) […]
The story thus far: In last week’s episode, we introduced the two main characters, Representative Taulbee and Charles Kincaid, reporter. Even after Kincaid wrote the the news story which halted Taulbee’s career in Congress, they both continued to work in the Capitol, Taulbee as a lobbyist, Kincaid as a reporter.
For the last nine years, our backyard gardening strategy has included one constant: find ways to block the view of the alley. The reason? The house just around the corner, whose backyard ends five feet from our fence, was an eyesore. For the first few years it was just a confusing mess — a run […]
ISO: gently used furniture, stuff for the little ones that doesn’t break the bank, a well-loved paperback, maybe a new CD or movie and an unusual tchotchke or two. Do you have this (and more) taking up space in your house? Give it a new home! If you’re having a yard sale this weekend, click […]
I was at that happy place, the H Street Temporium, Sunday after a friend emailed me a picture of a white beaded sheath and asked what I thought of it. “I’ll be right there,” I said, and hoofed it down in flip-flops. Amid the varied and clever accessory offerings on display were racks of full-on […]