For those of you who are wondering what’s up with the status of plans to redesign Eastern Market Metro Plaza aka “Capitol Hill Town Square,” (or going back several years back, the Gateway project, with actual arches or gates) all in order to create a L’Enfantian landscape – well, I did too and I had […]
I shop online — a lot — so I get my fair share of daily marketing emails, from West Elm to Lands’ End. But there is one email I look forward opening: Etsy Finds, a daily guide to the best of Etsy.com. Whether the email is focused on a specific theme — tennis, forbidden love, […]
I have lived in my house for five years and in those five years I have painted the 10 rooms and two hallways in my house a total of 18 times. We painted the rooms in our house when we first moved in the summer of 2005. I repainted our kitchen when we updated the […]
On more than one occasion I have walked into Frager’s with a vague description of the item I just had to have. “I need a thing for drywall, a screw, but it should say ‘Bull’s Eye’ on the box. Do you have something like that?” The request, made by me on my husband’s behalf, didn’t […]
Like the American bison that once roamed the plains, the ubiquitous Sears Portrait Studio baby picture is now virtually extinct. I personally have loads with the cloudy blue background, oftentimes sitting or leaning on a bench of some sort covered in brown shag carpet. And yes, I have the picture-within-a-picture: me smiling adorably at the […]