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The Third Place: A Conversation about Design and Community
Photo Credit: Robert Stansell, Emporium DesignThis is one in a series of interviews about our neighborhoods and the people who love them. Would you like to participate? Click here for more information about contributing to...
Meet Booker, a Unique Teen Traveler
Photo Credit: Tania CyprianoThis is one in a series of interviews about our neighborhoods and the people who love them. Would you like to participate? Click here for more information about contributing to Neighborhood Nomads.December...
Canal Park's Opening Weekend
›November 17, 2012, Washington, DC: Something significant happened today in the Washington neighborhood of Navy Yard — something we’d all been waiting for. Today was the day the children arrived. They came to skate at Canal Park during its...
How Far Away Is Work and How Do You Get There?
November 10, 2012, Washington, DC: My one-way commute to the office recently shrank from 35 miles down to six. While the work itself is similar in the new job, the lifestyle change is dramatic. I no longer spend the morning racing down the highway...
Miles From Monday: The Day We Kayaked to Lunch
Miles from Monday is a weekly travel series focused on venturing out of the spaces we inhabit during our work week and retreating to landscapes that feel far from routine.The three King brothers opened King’s Kitchen in June on Connecticut’s...
Prime City Real Estate: The Dupont Underground
Ascending into the light from the Dupont Circle Metro station takes time. The escalator keeps going and going, rising out of the earth in the middle of the city. What I didn’t know until recently is that it carries Metro riders up past a huge...
Neighborhood Nomads: At Home in the Green Cabin
Photo Credit: Michelle ChuThis is one in a series featuring our homes, our neighborhoods and the people who love them. Would you like to participate? Click here for more information about contributing to Neighborhood Nomads.There’s a...
A Good Place To Write (And To Not)
August 24, 2012, Upstate New York: I am at my brother and his family’s cabin in the mountains of upstate New York. It’s a big old cabin on a wooded mountaintop where summers are cold and it’s never out-of-season for a fire in the fireplace. It’...
Neighborhood Nomad: Julia’s Perspective on Capitol Hill
Like so many of us, Julia Christian very deliberately selected a place to call home. Bottom line: She loved it there. But unlike those of us with ultra-nomadic tendencies who land far from the nest, Julia chose to return to the very neighborhood in...
One Year, Ten Photos -- Happy Anniversary, Neighborhood Nomad!
“It is there if you just close your eyes and breathe softly through your nose; you will hear the whispered message, for all landscapes ask the same question in the same whisper. ‘I am watching you — are you watching yourself in me?’” -Lawrence...
Holiday Weekends in the City
The Friday night and Saturday morning of a holiday weekend is always a good time to enjoy the city. If you’re staying put, you watch the evening traffic head out, bound for the beach or a weekend with family.You watch the roads clear and things grow...
Adult Life in a College Town: Charlottesville, Virginia
I never lived in a college town, even in college. For all the perks of big cities, one of the downsides is that they mask the richness of university life that exists there. University lectures and special events and sports can take second fiddle to...
