So while I was moping about not being able to ski this season, I was lucky enough to have Sundance in town. The process of getting tickets is utterly ridiculous, with queues in name only and rampant lying about how many seats are left, forcing…
In some ways I’m still really optimistic that 2020 is going to be our year. I’m excited about our little family of four continuing to gain our balance against new hormones and development milestones. I’m looking forward to some projects at work with a reconstituted…
Happy to report that there’s been a lot of reason to celebrate around these parts lately. Halloween: the holy high day of the year. Diwali: the new year. My birthday: only 32, which means I still have a year until my Jesus year. Desmond’s half birthday: I have an eighteen month old who laughs, plays games, hides everything I find useful in the house, and finally, FINALLY, calls me Mama. And a new job: a pretty great gig in higher education policy that I’m very excited to start next week.
Well, it happened. The government has shut down, meaning those hacks on the hill were unable to reach an agreement on how to actually fund federal agencies and set spending priorities. One party, let’s call them the effing Republicans, is being run by infantile asshats…
If you are a federal employee household, like we are, the potential government shutdown is probably also on your mind. Thanks to a number of children (and not the good kind, but those cavechildren you see in public, climbing furniture, eating paste, and pulling hair…
A few years ago, while menu-tasting for our wedding in the DC metro area, I tasted what continues to be my favorite appetizer, hands down: crispy palak (spinach) chaat. I won’t mention the name of the Indian restaurant in the Virginia suburbs, despite the wondrousness…
Today I’m sharing a recipe that my sister mastered: the coveted ramen burger, the hipster dish still noticeably absent on the district’s food scene, despite having already traveled from its hometown Brooklyn all the way out west to California, and even back again. My sister…
A few notable things happened this past week. I got sick, I got better, and now I’m sick again.
India has been on my mind lately. We’re right in the middle of one of the biggest festivals of the year: the ten-day Ganapati festival. Millions of Indians across the world will be visiting one another in homes to pay homage to elaborate arrangements surrounding…
A few months ago I stumbled upon one of the best dining establishments in the district: Hot N Juicy. That’s right– that place nestled in the strip of not-so-great restaurants along Connecticut Avenue in Woodley Park, that place where people who want to gorge on…
