yoga

About four years ago, I told my dad that I felt like I was a hippie in a conservative girl’s body. He said I sounded confused.
I made the comment because I was thinking about how I wanted to camp and hike and bike to work and take pottery and travel without wearing makeup and wear [...]

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house party

Last night, my roommate and I packed about 80 people into our three-bedroom apartment for a party. To prepare, we scrubbed and vacuumed like madwomen and walked up to Safeway to buy bags of tortilla chips and Utz potato chips and dip and carrots and M&Ms and toilet paper. We also got about four cases [...]

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the state of journalists

My coworker was digging through the trash in the office kitchen today for a nickel. Laughing, I helped. “Really, do you have to pull the bag out and puncture a hole in it for a nickel?” It reminded me of when I was in first grade and a girl accidentally threw away her retainer that [...]

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no love for the Metro

The editor of the Philadelphia Business Journal called my office about a year and a half ago. He was writing an editorial about public transportation and wanted a reporter’s take on D.C.’s service. Since I commute every day on the Metro, I volunteered to give him my opinion.
This is how I recall the conversation going [...]

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why i love D.C.

Yesterday N. picked me up at 2:30 p.m. and I presented him with three choices:
1) a National Geographic exhibit at the Meridian International Center (in a building that’s on the National Historic Register)
2) The International Spy Museum
3) Mount Vernon and the new whiskey distillery
Overly ambitious, we shot for two out of three — the photography [...]

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can this be true?

I heard this story on NPR almost three weeks ago, and it’s still on my mind when I walk to work or up the gazillion (please note that spell check approved this word) steps in my apartment.
To boil it down — the premise is a Harvard study found that hotel maids who were engaging in [...]

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oh, the irony

I stepped onto the Metro tonight, on my way home from work, and there was a 20-something girl in all black sitting in the seat designated for the elderly and handicapped. Next to her, on a seat also designated for the elderly and handicapped sat two of her bags: a stuffed red duffel bag and [...]

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it’s really coming down

You know it’s really snowing hard and the city of D.C. is going into full panic mode when your coworker turns and looks out the window and says with wide eyes, “Holy snowballs!”

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the power of words

I was a bridesmaid in my first Jewish wedding on Long Island in November. On a Friday morning, I took the bus from Dupont Circle to Penn Station and then I hopped on the Long Island Rail Road to Ronkonkoma. When I emerged, A.’s mom picked me up and drove me to a salon to [...]

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on laughing

I’m a laugher. Everyone who knows me, knows that I laugh often, and it doesn’t take much. Laughter carries many benefits, including a stronger immune system and a greater pain threshold (or so say some “studies.”)
But it also carries some downfalls — including being inappropriately loud and laughing when no one else finds whatever happened [...]

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