As regular readers know, Stella recently moved out of the little gem of a house in D.C. that once contained a delightful garden. (And thank you, dear readers, for your outpouring of garden grief sympathy.)
I set out on my home-seeking journey for a one-bedroom condo with a set of very precise criteria: price range; location [...]
The first time we visited the house, we pulled up to find our real estate agent attempting to jimmy the lock on the front door with a $2 hammer and a bent screw driver. He had already mangled the lock so badly that the key would no longer fit, so the hammer and screwdriver were [...]
Analysts at Goldman Sachs recently projected that oil will likely reach $200.00 a barrel within the next year. GM announced today that it was closing four SUV manufacturing plants, and rumors are buzzing around that they will also discontinue the civilian-use line of Hummers. Are we on the cusp of real change? [...]
Watching the television show is not a lonely exercise. The clothes are pretty, the shoes are shiny, and usually the question Carrie asks – a question like, “Were we all in fact just dating the same person over and over again?” – rings a bell with your own life. Each of the four characters has [...]
Since global warming has begun to manifest itself in a frighteningly real way, environmentalism is no longer the radical idea it once was. The “greener than thou” attitude now pervades every pore of modern American society. On the surface, this isn’t such a bad thing; if people realize that their actions directly affect [...]