Tag Archives: Washington DC

Don’t forget your Clean Wipes

Posted on July 27, 2011 by

News reaches me from Washington DC that the Camelot strip club is trying to boost lunchtime business. They are encouraging local professionals (Transparency Towers is just one of the organizations headquartered close to the club) to bring their smart phones, ipads … Continue reading →

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Dodging the Pregnancy Bullet In DC

Posted on July 1, 2011 by

A young woman of my acquaintance has no health insurance. At high school, she did not receive the HPV vaccine, which protects against cervical cancer. She is at an age and stage where many young women become single mothers. She and I … Continue reading →

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A Kindness of Strangers

Posted on March 10, 2011 by

Last night was a bad time to leave my hooded raincoat hanging on the back of my office door for it was pouring this morning when I left the house. I didn’t even have an umbrella, because those are all … Continue reading →

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Say Cheese at the National Harbor

Posted on January 16, 2011 by

“It won the Oscar of cheeses” Lavonya told us, describing a Wisconsin cheddar. Lavonya was standing in for the Maitre de Fromage at the Gaylord National last night, and did an excellent job. That girl knows her cheeses. Four of us were … Continue reading →

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San Francisco: Suds, strippers, screws and so on

Posted on November 6, 2010 by

The door of the glove compartment in Steve’s ancient Honda was held shut by the leg of a pair of drug store glasses. “It got broken when I was a suds bud” he explained, and went on to tell the … Continue reading →

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Just one step short of glamorous

Posted on October 20, 2010 by

I went to sleep last night just as Jay Leno embarked on his monologue and woke up half way through Regis and Kelly, some 11 hours later. This morning I visited Itchy Ankle’s newest breakfast hotspot, the Heavenly Grill (yes, owned … Continue reading →

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Lullabies for the long in the tooth

Posted on October 17, 2010 by

I should have taken photos of course, but I was so rapt that I forgot to focus my iphone. The opening session of the National Association of Corporate Directors conference was rounded out tonight by a beautiful performance from the … Continue reading →

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Only in DC

Posted on October 2, 2010 by

Hansel visited the Department of Motor Vehicles in downtown DC this week, because he needed a new ID card. Any visit to the DMV lasts at least two hours and so there is plenty of time for people-watching. A young … Continue reading →

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Talking with a Tea-Partier

Posted on August 26, 2010 by

I like to  keep my nose firmly stuck in other people’s business and so one of the joys of staying in a hotel is the unrivaled access it gives me to people I don’t know at all. Last night, sitting … Continue reading →

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Iphone, Iphone, take my call: who’s the fairest of them all?

Posted on August 21, 2010 by

I write from 30, 000 feet, thanks to the wifi service available on my American Airlines flight to San Diego via Dallas Fort Worth. The floating on air feeling is welcome, because the week since my vacation ended has been rather … Continue reading →

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