WalMart (El Paso, TX; 8/4/2019) Malls (Burlington, WA; 09/23/2016)* Movie theater (Aurora, CO; 07/20/2012) Outdoor concert (Las Vegas, NV; 10/01/2017) Club (Orlando, FL; 06/12/2016) Yoga (Tallahassee, FL; 11/2/2018) Bars (Dayton, OH; 8/4/2019; Thousand Oaks, CA, 11/7/2018) Elementary school (Newtown, CT; 12/14/2012) Middle school (Sparks, NV; 10/21/2013) High school (Parkland, FL; 02/14/2018)* College (Blacksburg, VA; 04/16/2007)…
I have a pretty good memory: an overall good memory and an especially good memory for things people tell me about themselves. My super good memory sometimes scares my parents, who think I might remember the (very few) times that they were less than perfect. I do, sometimes, but memories are more like a place…
#178: Community Gardens I never, ever thought I would list community gardens as a thing I love. A number of plants and pets have died under my care, including two supposedly immortal beta fish (RIP, Wally and Gloria Tallulah) and two baby turtles (RIP, September Rashid and Wheels Von Neumann Turtle). I would like to…
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#179: The Eagles There is a pair of Bald Eagles that made a nest at the National Arboretum in 2014. They were promptly named The President and the First Lady because of course. Last year the eagles had a pair of eaglets. We could all watch them in the Eagle Cam (really) and they were…
A decade and a half ago I lived in Caracas, Venezuela. It’s the place where I grew up and the place that’s still home to many people in my family. Exactly fifteen years ago today Venezuelans, including my dad, my sister and me, took to the streets to protest the government of Hugo Chávez Frías. It…
In a misguided spring cleaning effort I deleted a lot of emails and just discovered that the email where I kept the original list of the 365 reasons was an unfortunate casualty of that. I can still come up with many, many reasons I love DC, but I am warning you that the reasons from…
In the days and weeks before I was supposed to leave to do research in another country I took comfort in the idea that I was going to a place where I knew the language. I’m a native Spanish speaker and I was going to Ecuador. Everything else about the trip was just a rough…
Yesterday was the first time in a long, long, long time that I said out loud “Washington, DC, I love you– but are you kidding me?” This was in response to the Fourth of July celebration in my favorite city in the world. If you were here or watched any part of it on PBS…
#180: National Portrait Gallery The National Portrait Gallery is part of the Smithsonian Institution which, contrary to what tourists think, is not one museum but a number of museums. As such this museum, like all other Smithsonian museums, is free. I, of course, love free things, so lots of points for the National Portrait Gallery.…
#181: Baked & Wired Here is what I love most about Baked & Wired: it’s not Georgetown Cupcake. I’m not a cupcake fan. They’re cute and all (I mean, they’re a mini-cake and all mini things are cute. Well, almost all mini things…) but they’re just cake and I’m medium* on cake. Brownies, I love.…
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