Library Day here at ONP! Continuing my series of renewing my library books at a different branch of the DC library each time they come due. . . . Now, I hate to play favorites—but this adorable Petworth library may be my favorite so far: the red brick building with white cupola, dark wooden window frames…
I was looking for a particular alley off of U Street today, with a particular mural, but I got lost and ended up at 9 1/2 Street NW. Why not? I thought. I liked the contrasts of 9 1/2 Street–one side mini gentrified row-houses and the other side crumbling brick buildings. A rainbow pride banner…
The one good thing about catching on all these pesky medical appointments over the summer is that some of them are taking me to New Places—for example, today’s Hall of Mirrors. While seemingly a normal office building on the outside, the inside of 2112 F Street (with its double-mirrored gold entryway) place struck me as…
Quelle dilema! My original New Place today (the REI store in NE DC) got usurped by a spontaneous New Place (the unit block of Pierce Street NW), when we took a stroll around the neighborhood and discovered the street’s pink and white anime-inspired mural and a reflective glass office building that mirrored the sky and…
One of the things that surprises me about this project is how rarely New Places come into my daily life as a matter of course. I usually have to go out and intentionally look for them. So when an errand took me to today’s New Place, I was happy (and a little relieved) to have an…
One of the best things about the ONP project is how my friends are getting into the spirit of it. Many are eager to come along on my explorations (I now keep a running list of destinations and the people who want to go there). Even cooler is when my friends have New Places they want…
Wow, close one! Today’s New Place almost didn’t happen. I left it go until the end of the day, thinking I would go someplace after Physical Therapy. That place was a no-go because of traffic. So I drove home an alternate route, thinking I would find a park I had driven by last week. But…
Today I got into American University Law School! It started innocently enough: I was looking for a New Place in the Tenleytown neighborhood (where I had a errand earlier in the day), came upon the Law School campus and decided to walk around. Although looking at the outside of the buildings was in and of itself interesting,…
Sometimes a New Place stares you in the face every day, and you are so used to seeing/not seeing it right in front of you, you don’t even realize you could explore it a little more deeply. Grand Oaks shares a parking lot with the hospital where I do my Physical Therapy. Three times a…
New Places, new technology. Today’s New Place (brought to me by a medical appointment) took me downtown to this big complex, the Lafayette Center, which covered almost a whole city block, and introduced me to a new-fangled elevator that nobody ever asked for and nobody ever wanted. In the world of the future you apparently have…