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I hold my niece against my chest, tight. She laughs – her eyes sparkling with her laugh. She shrieks with glee rolling over my leg, my arm, my fingers on my sister’s soft bed. “Hava” says E, my niece.
“Ba” I say.
“Ma ma mama ba, hava?”
“ka la” I answer.
She giggles, throwing her head back, pleased [...]
Get Out of SATC card prompts ranting on why this show’s final episode succccked
John Kass’s free “Get out of SATC card” for men in the Chicago Tribune reminded me of my many, many, many rants on this show. (And yes, John, I’m a young(ish) female reader.)
As a woman, and a woman who sure watched some of the episodes, had a chuckle or two, I too can see the [...]
The beautiful ache
It’s National Police Week, which means Judiciary Square, and its Fallen Officer Memorial are glorious. I don’t have a particular connection to police officers but I do have a connection to this place and the painful beauty it reverberates in memory, in mourning but in celebration for lives lost too soon. These were the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 3 so far )Wearing your acheivments on your sleeve
My sister and I were discussing the magazine “Penny Power” of our youth. Wondering if it was still around, I went to my trusty friend, the Interweb and found this instead:
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( 2 so far )tulips I’ve known and loved -dupont
0417081008, originally uploaded by washwords.
DC in the springtime is breathtakingly beautiful. My
Flickr set features some of my favorite tulips from in and around my immediate neighborhood. I took all of these between 16th and 19th NW, from about P to S streets. There are about a zillion more.
And, shh, my own illicitly planted tulips [...]
Flashback Friday – kicking it DC “blogster” old school
In trying to find information about my historic (and possibly haunted) Washington, DC home for a personal essay I’m FINALLY trying to shop, I found an abundance of riches in some of the least likely places.
Remember those old school websites? Geocities! Everyone used to have those “animated” angels on such sites or kittycats, and the [...]
