Remember Y2K? Is it just me or does it seem crazy that that was TEN years ago? What a difference a decade makes! Ten years ago, I was in Ca...

The National Christmas Tree last night I'm spending a lovely evening at home with my family. I hope you're enjoying yourself too.

Dupont Circle looked beautiful today in the winter sun. They started to clear away snow from around the fountain with a bulldozer, but there...

In an ideal world, I would have made matching, monogrammed green velvet stockings for Chuk and myself using the sewing machine he got me for...

Amber is hosting an "All I want for Christmas" party this week. Of course I want lots of intangible things like an end to hunger ...

As you've probably figured out by now, I'm not really into giving gift cards or money as gifts. I prefer to pick something out for t...

I went to college in Connecticut for four years, graduate school in DC for three years, and taught at a school in Xi'an for two winters ...