Last Thursday was a snow day for my kids. Which meant an unexpected day to entertain the little ones, while not dumping more Kahlua in my coffee than necessary. Because, as much destruction happens when I’m coherent, I can only imagine the amount of destruction that would happen if I was not coherent. Some of […]
If you have children you surely understand what it means to have cabin fever—the kind of condition that leaves children with boundless energy while homes and parents suffer the consequences of said boundless energy. As far as a work-life balance goes, I’d say I have it pretty good. I spend three days a week in […]
I first arrived in DC and 2001 and soon after my contentious relationship with DC’s transit system was born. So many unappealing things about the whole experience, above ground stops that leave waiting passengers sweltering in the summer and freezing in the winter, and fare card machines that are functional except they won’t take coins […]
Living in southern New Jersey meant that we had to drive anywhere we wanted to go, so when I turned 17 all I wanted was the autonomy that my driver’s license and a car would bring. I drove to school, to work, to the community pool a half mile away, to the Wawa around the […]
When I moved to the southeast side of the Hill eight years ago, I remember looking down my street on sunny days and seeing a sliver of water glistening in the sun and thinking how cool it would be to have a river walk there like the one in Old Town. I love being by […]