All done with your Thanksgiving feast? Have you finished correcting everyone that it’s the “Macy’s THANKSGIVING Day Parade” and not simply the Macy’s Day Parade? Done extolling the virtues of apple pie over pumpkin, or, God forbid, pecan? Well good. Time to swap out our A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving for A Charlie Brown Christmas. Which requires, in […]
The Hill is Home asked Frager’s Hardware employees — otherwise known as the “Frager’s family” — to reflect on their time at the shop. The following is a guest post from Jessica VonDyke, who worked in the paint department. Working at Frager’s Hardware does not suck. I grew up in the area, but I didn’t meet […]
Guest Post By Malissa Zimmerman In 2000, I bought a house on Capitol Hill that brought me to Frager’s Hardware more than a few times each week. I had worked in politics since 1995 and enjoyed going to the store “just to see what I needed.” Soon, I found myself working there on the weekends […]
I was enjoying a nice run in the rain last Thursday, when I came upon a woman who was walking her dog. It’s the kind of thing we see all the time on the Hill. The dog was in the tree box and she was standing, waiting, only this person was wearing a hooded rain […]
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 […]