I haven’t been to a car wash in decades. This one, on Connecticut Avenue NW, appealed because of the art deco styling and the shiny metal façade that reminded me as much of a diner (serving milkshakes and good times!) as a carwash. Good times were had indeed. After turning over the car to the…
Driving towards Takoma Park on one of the main streets I know well, I decided to turn left onto a street I didn’t recognize and see what happened. This sweet little dead-end street happened! Lined on either side with neat bungalows, and sporting clump of bright sunflowers and a picket fence or two, Venable Place…
Continuing the ice cream series here at One New Place. I had been curious about this place in NW DC: I often saw a crowd outside when I drove past. A little research turned up an old fashioned ice cream window serving Giffords (from Maine—my old stomping ground!) ice cream. Had to try that out!…
Rainy day here in DC (again!). But I forced myself out, and rode the 90 bus down to this little comic book store on U Street that I’ve had my eye on. It always looks so cheerful, in its Superman blue and yellow row-house super-suit. Big Planet Comics was on my list to explore today…
I took advantage of a beautiful Sunday afternoon to get outside and explore Howard University’s main quad, “The “Yard,” today, with its gorgeous brick buildings and classic architecture. The library, with its columns and pretty white cupola and a couple of other buildings date from the early 1900s; the chapel, a small, Gothic-style building from…
Traveled to the Bulgaria tonight to explore multiple new things—new poetry, new sculpture, new wine (Bulgarian!) and some new acquaintances. But the best part of this evening was how my friends are getting into the One New Place project. It was fun to have two of them along to share (multiply!) the excitement of discovering new…
Boy, did I need to visit a New Place today! I woke up with only a few hours of sleep, so frustrated and worn out from trying to troubleshoot some of the technical aspects of this website and overwhelmed by a stressful and overlong to-do list. I knew I needed a whole fresh perspective. So,…
Another entry in my Civil War forts of DC miniseries! To many people (including me for most to of the 13 years I lived in DC) Fort Bayard Park is just a large, green hill with a playground, a small baseball field, and lots of open space for romping things (dogs, kids, etc.) to romp.…
Alley Dive!! I was craving a good old fashioned DC alley dive, after a few weeks up in small-town Pennsylvania. The alley we found (in the Mt. Pleasant neighborhood, behind 18th Street, NW, between Kenyon and Kilbourne) was especially cool because it wasn’t just one linear alley, but rather a network of connecting alleys, chock…
Throwing the dog a bone today, with another addition to our “Dog Parks of DC” mini-series. We traveled to the Columbia Heights neighborhood to visit this park at 11th and Park Street NW (“11th and Bark” I’ve heard it affectionately called by the dog contingent). This dog park has everything a dog and its owner…