It’s a holiday weekend so I know a lot of you are heading out of town and I wish you safe travels. Are you sticking around? Here are some thoughts. Thursday is Independence Day and celebrate the best neighborhood in the US at the annual Barracks Row Parade. SO WHAT that the local paper neglected […]
Hope you had a wonderful Fourth of July, Capitol Hill! This year was an especially impressive one for fireworks– the main display over the National Mall seemed to go on forever, or at least for about 17 minutes from start to finish. (Sorry, San Diego: they aren’t supposed to explode all at once.) The neighborhood […]
Hello there, Capitol Hill! Hope you’re having a wonderful 237th birthday celebration so far. If you’re getting a little antsy in between parades and fireworks and BBQs, here are a few of our past posts on this, the most American of holidays, for your reading pleasure: Jon’s breakdown of activities from last year still has […]
To me, Independence Day is a pretty special day on Capitol Hill. Yes there is the deep meaning of living so close to the federal government on a day we remember our declaration of freedom and how special and unique that is. Sure, there’s that. But Capitol Hill seems to take on a very small-town […]
Are we in the dog days of summer? The temperatures would indicate so much, but my dog doesn’t seem to want to be outdoors much when it’s this hot so perhaps it’s not my dog’s days of summer. He does enjoy the kiddie pool full of water though. But I digress. It’s been a hot, […]