I remember that it was so much fun flying kites when I was younger. Of course back then kite flying was essentially in our front yards or maybe down at a nearby park. I can’t remember why it was so much fun. After all, one is simply standing there holding…
I came across this post on Writer’s Digest earlier: How to Start a Book Project. Sounds like kind of a daunting prospect, right? But what the article promotes is setting little deadlines, little goals, to get a book project off the ground. Because writing a book in say, a year,…
I intended to take a walk around the tidal basin at sunrise and photograph the cherry blossoms (picturesque in any sort of setting, I suppose). Yesterday was such a beautiful day that I expected today to be similar and thought how great the Tidal Basin would look at sunrise. But…
Leap year has become just another day. I guess there is still a sense of relaxation, if that makes sense. It’s a bonus day that allows you one more day to get something done that maybe had not been taken into account. But when I was younger there seemed to…
Weather in DC was in the upper 60s yesterday, and sunny. And in the middle of the afternoon a bunch of us stepped outside for a chipwich from Scoops2U. Seeing as how I didn’t go out for lunch, it was the perfect break to at least get a taste of…
DC’s schizophrenic weather continues with today’s forecast calling for snow. Snow? This after the incredibly beautiful day yesterday. Granted, I still needed a jacket yesterday, and when I sat down by the pool in front of the Capitol reading my hands got more than a little cold holding my book,…