Yesterday, Congressional Cemetery held its inaugural Dead Man’s Run 5k, which snaked around the historic cemetery starting at 8AM on Mother’s Day. There was a great field: estimates at race time were that 375 women and 370 men registered for the event. I hung out around the start/finish line to bring the highlights below, and […]
Good morning everyone. I do so hope you enjoyed the lovelygorgeousperfect weekend. A weekend where the nosy were allowed to peep into the homes of complete strangers, cemeteries were for running in and mothers were fêted (or grumbled about.) I drove on past Lincoln Park on Sunday afternoon and one would have thought there was […]
Among many liquor license and zoning issue agenda items this month, the ANCs are all finalizing and voting on their resolutions on recommendations for the upcoming redistricting. I am expecting each group to recommend that the city leave their boundary lines as-is, but the City Council’s subcommittee will have the ultimate say. In other news, […]
I recently wrote of the scandal that raced through Washington’s papers when Representative Lafferty wrote a letter to Miss Florence Kubel without having been properly introduced, and how this managed to tarnish his name badly. It was a scandal that could really only have happened at the time, but unfortunately for Miss Kubel, it wasn’t […]
Before we began our kitchen renovation my neighbor told me he had friends who actually got divorced over their home remodel. It was with this advice in mind that we pressed forth with what I affectionately refer to as my first and last major home renovation project. I know there are far worse things than […]