Well that first weekend of games isn’t quite what I was hoping for from the Nats but I still have some hope and am excited for some warm nights and sunny weekends at the ballpark! Yeah, and that’s me being really hopeful that the warm weather will finally get here. Spring makes me optimistic, what […]
On June 30, 1882, Charles Guiteau was executed for the assassination of President Garfield. It was just under a year since he had pulled the trigger, and the trial had held public attention for most of the intervening year. The execution took place on Capitol Hill, and the executioner himself was not only a Hill […]
So, as I’m walking my kid and her friends to school the other morning, the conversation turns, as it’s wont to do with today’s six year-old set, to the impending testing regime, or the DC Comprehensive Assessment System, known popularly to them as DC-CAS. As the thread had segued from a previous discussion of Super […]
ANC 6A had a relatively light agenda for March. The meeting began with approvals for a number of recommendations by the ANC’s committees. First was a grant for $1,767 to the Maury Elementary PTA for the purchase of 3 overhead projectors that are otherwise out of scope for what is available to purchase through regular […]
Does anyone else feel like Mother Nature is teasing us? We get a stretch of gorgeous spring weather, and then 30 degrees and snow this last weekend? And just in time for me to take up running at the crack of dawn. My fingers are still numb… It’s cherry blossom season, the Nats’ regular season […]