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neighborhood nomads Congress Market, 5th and East Capitol SE “Why go far afield when within three or four blocks there at the heart of Capitol Hill we had the Capitol of the United States, the...
neighborhood nomads This is one in a series featuring our city neighborhoods and the people who love them. Would you like to participate? Click here for more information about contributing to...
neighborhood nomads Construction at the Maples/Friendship House on Capitol Hill, May 2013. May 3, 2013, Washington, DC: The cranes went up about a week ago, and as far as I can tell the heavy...
neighborhood nomads “Find yourself a place you belong in the universe,” she said, “a place where the dirt feels like goodness under your feet.” -Pam Houston Miles from Monday is a travel series...
neighborhood nomads Photo Credit: Canden Schwantes This is one in a series featuring our city neighborhoods and the people who love them. Would you like to participate? Click here for more...
neighborhood nomads “Every mile out there is a gift.” -Amby Burfoot, winner of the 1968 Boston Marathon April 22, 2013, Washington, DC: Amby Burfoot was less than a mile from the finish line last...
neighborhood nomads April 21, 2013, Washington, DC: Late April in Washington this year marks the beginning of our Potomac days. We’re off to a later start than normal, it seems, but we don’t let...
neighborhood nomads April 17, 2013: Hello, NoMad! This place so deserves a shout out here on Neighborhood Nomads – not only for its name, but for that picturesque ivy that creeps around a...
neighborhood nomads April 13, 2013, New York: Early on in high school, my art teacher started taking groups of us on outings known as Saturdays in the City. Every month or two, we’d take a train...
April 4, 2013, Washington, DC: Shortly after landing in Washington from spring training, Nationals phenom Bryce Harper announced his arrival to the nearly 200,000 people who follow him on Twitter....
April 3, 2013, Washington, DC: Last winter, I published a post called Writing About Place: A Reading List where I planned to keep tabs on books and articles that spoke to the power of place. The...
March 31, 2013, Washington, DC: A sunny Saturday Easter egg hunt along Barracks Row preceded this cloudy holiday and the kids of Capitol Hill got out to enjoy the day. Check out all these tiny...
“Maybe it meant something. Maybe not, in the long run… but no explanation, no mix of words or music or memories can touch that sense of knowing that you were there and alive in that corner of time...
March 26, 2013, Washington, DC: It’s 6:00 pm on a major news day. You’ve scrolled through the Tweets, liked the Facebook statuses, seen the Instagrams, clicked through the slideshows, read the...
March 25, 2013, Washington, DC: DC’s first snow of the winter arrived this morning just in time to coincide with spring break and the National Cherry Blossom Festival. (The blossoms are a little...
March 24, 2013, Washington, DC: Forget that whole bit about spring springing. It’s freezing here! Eastern Market is downright drab today, and it’s not helping that the street musician bundled in a...
March 20, 2013, Washington, DC: It was a hodgepodge group out there last night, for sure. A marine in uniform and a clown nose hugged his girlfriend as toddlers ran joyful circles behind the crowd....
March 13, 2013, Washington, DC: I leave the Atlas Theater on H St. Sunday night thinking about cupcakes and sweet potato pie. The night is mild and a taxicab pulls up immediately to the theater’s...
Photo Credit: Bill Gallery This is one in a series of interviews about the world’s neighborhoods and the people who love them. Would you like to participate? Click here for more information about...
“In the winter I rise at first light and spend as many hours as the weather allows outside, taking advantage of every moment of light the stingy heavens offer. But soon there will be so much...
This is one in a series of interviews featuring people invested in our homes, our neighborhoods and the power of place. Would you like to participate? Click here for more information about...
Photo Credit: Robert Stansell, Emporium Design This is one in a series of interviews about our neighborhoods and the people who love them. Would you like to participate? Click here for more...
“My space reflects the life I’ve lived so far, and it’s filled with stuff that has been with me for years, stuff that reminds me of where I’ve traveled, who I’ve loved, and where I want to go...
February 19, 2013, Washington, DC: It seems somewhat disingenuous to have come this far on Neighborhood Nomads without mentioning one of the main reasons I love living where I do. In truth, it’s...
February 18, 2013, Washington, DC: The Library of Congress is one of those close-to- home landmarks I walk, bike, run and drive around regularly, but I’m ashamed to say I’d never been inside until...
February 11, 2013, Washington, DC: On a trip through the airport this fall, I picked up the magazine Foreign Policy. It’s a publication I rarely read, but this was the Cities Issue, jam packed with...
February 5, 2013, Washington, DC: I had an hour or so to spare this evening in Dupont Circle. Instead of returning straight home from work, I walked across the Taft Bridge over Rock Creek Park,...
“It occurs to me that I’ve spent my entire adulthood trying to integrate my travel life with my “real” life, hoping I might bridge that unbridgeable ocean between home and away. Why else would I...
Miles from Monday is a travel series focused on venturing out of the spaces we inhabit during our work week and retreating to landscapes that feel far from routine. January 21, 2013, Washington,...
January 8, 2013, Washington, DC: I snapped these photos this evening on my bike ride home. It was the first time I’d gotten out and exercised in awhile and I took my sweet time, pausing to balance...
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