A couple months ago Anna Cranage Conathan, 37, went to a cosmetics trend show at Nordstrom. She thought it was interesting, but it focused far more on luxury than practicality. It wasn’t for her, she thought, at least not where she is in life right now: a work-at-home mother who tries to remember to brush […]
The Hill is Home. Indeed. Is it though? I returned from New York Sunday night, but before I had left I found myself caught in a crying jag, sitting in a 100 year-old family-run pastry shop, which I have to leave again, with only a biscotti for company, trying not to wake the sleeping old […]
I looked on in wide-eyed wonderment — a less damaging alternative to my procerus muscle than creasing my brow in constant befuddlement — while at the Botox or Bangs event at Mickey Bolek’s Michael Anthony Salon across from Eastern Market on C Street SE. The event drew both hotties and hippies, sometimes in the same […]
I was in line somewhere in the Metro area, a museum I recall, and turned to ask a relaxed, jeans and untucked oxford-wearing woman behind me where she lived on the Hill. “I don’t,” she said. Yet, she had that “Hill look” that makes some people far away look as if they are our neighbors […]
When The Hill Is Home blogger Liz Festa asked me if I’d like to participate in a makeover story for the blog, I was quick to say yes. Just days before, I had been offered a part-time job with a non-profit organization on the Hill. It had been six months since I worked in an […]