Updating you in my personal quest to get Inauguration tickets, after Jim Webb sent me an e-mail telling me I'm not getting any tickets I got an e-mail from Jim Moran. Here's the top of the e-mail: First off I want to say that my friend status (continue reading / 3 comments)

On this Christmas Eve let me I got an e-mail from my local senator, Jim Webb. It wasn't a holiday greetings or a solicitation for money but a response to my earlier request for Inauguration tickets: Thank you for contacting Senator Webb’s (continue reading / 2 comments)

[caption id="attachment_7711" align="alignleft" width="180" caption="Chocolate Crumble Cake Bread Pudding"][/caption] Memo to anyone who bought the Double Chocolate Crumble Cake from Whole Foods this weekend.  If you were as disappointed as we (continue reading / 2 comments)

[caption id="attachment_7723" align="alignleft" width="300" caption=""Clinton_inauguration_1993_crowds" courtesy of Flickr user dpape"][/caption] Did estimates of up to 5 million people scare you from coming out to see the Obama (continue reading / 2 comments)

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="552" caption=""Christmas DC at dusk" from Flickr user Shane Bee, Creative Commons"][/caption] Hello from my stomping ground in North Haven, Connecticut. I knew I was home when two little girls (continue reading / 1 comments)

Seeing as the holiday spirit is beginning to wear off, I don't feel ashamed directing you to the Los Angeles Metblog, where Jason Burns, one of my favorite Metrobloggers, has written a hilarious entry about the Yankees' massive offseason. Many in (continue reading / 1 comments)

[caption id="" align="aligncenter" width="543" caption=""Fireworks 2008" by Flicker user afagen"][/caption] ---------------------------- "Drop the last year into the silent limbo of the past. Let it go, for it was imperfect, and thank (continue reading / 1 comments)

Happy New Year DC (is it too late to say that already?) About a month ago I agreed to take a little trip over inauguration weekend rather than stay for the event.  Not that I needed my arm twisted-a few seconds of imagining the traffic (continue reading / 1 comments)

  [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="My bike at the Jeff Mem, on my summertime commute"][/caption] ...Even the Presidential Inauguration!  Well, bike valet, that is.  As Frank mentions in the post below, yes, the (continue reading / 1 comments)

[caption id="attachment_7744" align="alignleft" width="300" caption=""Inaugural 09 Hotel Madness..." courtesy Flickr user dbking"][/caption] The best part of Inauguration might possibly be what happens after the swearing in. After (continue reading / 1 comments)