Heads of state and their spouses are often not the people to consult for travel tips. Itineraries are meticulously crafted, and even entire environments are altered to give the right impression. I enjoy travel, but I usually (and maybe due to my own financial limitations) experience place on the same terms as a [...]
Those of us who are holed up indoors from the great blizzard of 2010 have been amusing ourselves on-line, sharing grocery store inventory, cravings, menus, DVD recommendations, weather updates, power outages, federal closings, and of course snow removal adventures. Call it “snocial media.” Jackie sent the ladies this picture of her son Randy’s [...]
Everybody’s got a story. About a week into living on planet earth, you can count yourself among the many who have a past. And definitely by the time you learn to talk, think, eat and sleep on your own watch, you’ve got a perspective.
My friend Amy Hendrick, a talented photographer, cool [...]
Washington, D.C. residents need your help tomorrow, Monday, February 23. Senate Bill 160, the DC House Voting Rights Act, is coming up for a vote. This bill will give Washington, DC residents a single representative vote in the U.S. Congress.
The DC House Voting Rights Act is a bipartisan legislation that would [...]
Sunday February 1 will be Langston Hughes’s birthday. He would’ve been 107 years old. My how time flies. In The Big Sea, Langston articulated the real deal about Washington’s black bourgeoisie of the 1920s. The chapter is titled “Washington Society.”
These upper class colored people consisted largely of government workers, professors and [...]
As tickled, inspired, and proud I am about Barack Obama taking the oath of office tomorrow morning, the one change that didn’t happen as the campaign vibe shifted into the transition vibe was the Washington pecking order. This is not the Obamas’ fault; don’t get me wrong. Personally, I think they do model [...]
Yesterday I decided to go offline and visit the Historical Society of Washington, DC (801 K Street, NW) to see the opening of “Quilts for Obama: Celebrating the Inauguration of Our 44th President.” The exhibit is curated by photographer and quilt collector/artist Roland Freeman. Roland Freeman is one of those community activists [...]
There’s been a lot of hand wringing going on over the cast of millions (3-4 million) expected to descend on our sleepy capital city for the inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20th.
And as usual, DC residents are being encouraged to step up their best survival skills — stock up on groceries, fill the tank, [...]
I’ll never forget where I was or what I was doing the morning of September 11, 2001. I wasn’t doing anything special. I was in my apartment, a foot or so away from the bed. I’d just finished my yoga stretches in time to watch a friend make a guest appearance on [...]
Yesterday, I had to be queen of the hustle. I was determined this was going to be a make-or-break day. The goal was to get that “credential” to get into the Pepsi Center and see the hall of delegates, state signs, the funny hats. And YES! I got in.
Somehow, on [...]
