It’s day five of National Novel Writing Month. My usual strategy in years past is to work hard building up the word count during the first several days so that when I felt stuck on a plot point or an important scene (or what I felt to have been an…
If you do not live in the Northeast, or missed the news and weather forecast, then you may not know that it snowed over the last weekend. Yes, that’s right. It snowed. In October. And it was cold. Now granted, it didn’t stick. But there were large, fluffy snowflakes falling…
Okay. So this may be the last festival update until, well…until the festivals kick back off again in the spring. At least I don’t know of any coming up, barring the holiday market which isn’t so much a festival as an outdoor market. The Taste of Georgetown featured little bites…
Two more festivals, tackled in the same day. Granted, Taste of DC did run for three days, my friend and I opted to check it out on Sunday while we were already planning on being nearby for the Festa Italiana. We started out with Italy, knowing it would last for…
I’ve said it before, but fall brings the festival season back to DC. Already I’ve been to the National Book Festival, the Turkish Festival, the Festa Italiana and one day of Taste of DC. All which will have descriptions coming soon, of course. And also next weekend brings the Taste…
Two weekends ago the National Book Festival held on the mall, and it was the first time the festival was held on two days. Yup. TWO. Every year I look forward to the festival. Last year was the first year I actually stood in line for the book signings, and…