My sister visited the other weekend and it was a great, full weekend of DC fun. She’s been here a few times before, so the focus wasn’t so much on visiting each of the monuments and checking in at the museums. But as I explained it to one of my…
Twice a year the Library of Congress has an open house for the main reading room of the Jefferson Building when you can come in and take photos of the room. And their most recent open house fell on President’s Day and I luckily heard about it a few days…
As adults it can be difficult to get into the holiday spirit. There are a lot of other demands than lighting a Christmas tree. And sometimes it’s just a side errand to pick up a box of this year’s holiday cards, knowing that sometime in the very near future one…
Over the weekend I went with friends to two vineyards in Virginia, fairly close to DC. Virginia, in the event you don’t know, actually has some very decent wines and beautiful vineyards. For one thing, Virginia is a beautiful state. Something that always strikes me each time I leave the…
I came across an interesting article from the Publisher’s Weekly twitter feed on independent bookstores many weeks ago. Obviously a hot topic for the past couple of years (and now adding to that the role of bookstores in general). Where I lived growing up, there were not too many independent…
Wow. That’s really all I’ve got. Before, of course, I get into the gushing. So I did already talk briefly about him, back when I first got tickets to his concert. But here’s the thing. No matter how good a recording is, there is just nothing comparable to a live…