Last week, in the first of our series on local businesses that can help out with those pesky New Year’s resolutions, we looked at Going Green. This week’s topic, Eating Healthier, may just have you eating more green. When Kate Williamson, who lives in Northeast, found she was pregnant with her second child, she decided […]
Every year, under the guise of New Year’s resolutions, we get a chance to kick bad habits en masse. Personally, I’m a SMART goal setter. Yeah, yeah, my husband groaned a little bit too when I started getting all specific, measurable, attainable, realistic and timely at our annual post-holidays Indian-food-resolution-setting dinner several years ago. But […]
This past July I issued myself a challenge: to spend an entire month doing all my shopping and entertaining on the Hill. I won’t lie — I had mulled over the things that might cause me to cheat, like going to a movie theater or needing a new pair of running shoes, but I never […]
THIH’s Wine Guys recently suggested a vacation in a bottle. That is something Jon Genderson, head of operations at Schneider’s, has been seeing in action. Despite the current state of the economy and accompanying decline in retail generally, Schneider’s has seen an uptick in unit sales, even as dollar volume has remained steady. Genderson thinks […]
Though DC is no stranger to current and former expats, when Jean Kohanek and her husband, Cody Rice, returned from Montreal in late 2008, it was like a double homecoming. Not only were they back in the U.S. after her husband’s two year assignment abroad, but they were also coming back to Capitol Hill. Interestingly, […]