As this is the second labyrinth I have discovered for ONP, I suppose I can now claim that I have a “labyrinth series” going on! Yes, I do like to wander around in circles! Today’s New Place was brought to me courtesy of my friend M, who drove me out here to this pretty little…
Crossing state lines today! Woo-hoo! We are going crazy here at ONP!! Actually, it’s kind of a pain to drive up to Bethesda on a Friday afternoon close to rush hour, but as I had a medical appointment (in a not-New Place), I sucked it up. This was my third time at this doctor’s office,…
It was 6:30 at night, twilight. I was walking Washington’s familiar downtown streets to the DC Improv (Feb 9th ONP ), feeling simultaneously blue and nervous. I hadn’t had a lot of creative energy to devote to finding a New Place today, as it all went toward prepping a monologue of Civil War puns for tonight’s…
After a three-hour meeting (in German) and a medical appointment today, neither of them in New Places, I was almost too tired to move by the time I got home around 4 p.m.. But I had to eat, I had to find a New Place, and I had to walk Lola. So I hatched a…
How seldom New Places come naturally into the course of my day. This is a disturbing truth I have realized in the course of this ONP year. Usually I have to make a deliberate attempt to go out and find them. Thus, it’s always a relief when my schedule naturally involves a visit to a…
As I have to go further and further afield to find new places, my explorations have been taking me to the Petworth neighborhood lately, where I’ve noticed this cute hardware store on Upshur Street. Faced with a hardware store errand today, I decided to forego my local hardware store and head to Annie’s. What a…
Wow! Four New Places today (actually more, but I am only counting four). And I want to count all four (as opposed to picking just one) because they were all so fascinating. Today’s New Place(s) was(were) brought to us by my friend B, who invited me to attend the 2018 Unity Walk, an annual event…
Here we go on a-hiking on a beautiful fall Saturday, checking out a new (nameless) trail in Rock Creek Park–this one tucked behind Mt. Pleasant neighborhood with a sweet little lending library at the trail’s head. Honestly, while we had a pleasant enough outing, this trail doesn’t really qualify for my list of favorite Rock…
How many times, how many times, how many times. . . have I said this, have I never looked, have I driven by without knowing it existed, this place. This is a theme of my ONP year: the treasures concealed just around the corner if we turn left, go right, get off our beaten routes.…
Wow–I came really close to ditching the ONP project tonight. The skies were already dark at 6:30 when I left the hospital. I hadn’t had time earlier in the day to explore anyplace new. The rain was pouring down. My to-do list was as long as my left leg. I was hungry, on the verge…