When a Frager’s employee approached me and asked me to follow him upstairs I felt as though I was being asked to meet the wizard behind the curtain. This would be the last stop on my tour: a meeting with John Weintraub, one of two owners of Capitol Hill’s Frager’s Hardware. I walked into the […]
Suit up in your seersucker, your straw hats and summer skorts and grab your wheelie shoes or walking sticks for a special tour of the Capitol. It is fun to explore your own neighborhood and you will see and learn a dozen things you didn’t know unless you are Tim or Robert, we suppose, who […]
Originally slated for the Argonaut, Councilmember Wells has relocated tomorrow’s H Street office hours to the Biergarten Haus following last weekend’s kitchen fire at the Argo. This will be an evening event, as opposed to the usual morning coffee meeting. The new details, from the Councilmember’s site, are: Special Thursday Night Office Hours with Councilmember […]
A book is the only place in which you can examine a fragile thought without breaking it, or explore an explosive idea without fear it will go off in your face. It is one of the few havens remaining where a man’s mind can get both provocation and privacy. ~Edward P. Morgan It is one […]
I met Bonny King-Taylor in February, when I wrote about her pet coaching business, The Doggy Lama. During our conversation, she made an off-hand comment about how walking across the U.S. was part of the literal and figurative path that lead her to become a personal coach and counselor. The comment caught my interest, but […]