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Notes on Northern Virginia

Posted by on May 7, 2012 in Virginia, Voices of Virginia | 0 comments

Notes on Northern Virginia

I’d never been to Northern Virginia before I up and moved here. Other than the obligatory, pre-adolescent family trip to DC – which did cross the VA border just far enough to visit Arlington national cemetery – I really had no concept of what NoVA was.  Or that the constituents in the northern third of Virginia conceptualized

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Observing Community in Washington D.C.

Posted by on Jan 31, 2012 in post, Washington D.C. | 0 comments

Observing Community in Washington D.C.

I moved to D.C. with a car and a determined resolve not to drive it. At least, not to drive it very much. Having spent the last two years living abroad, completely dependent on public transportation, I’ve not only become accustomed to living without cars, I’ve actually come to prefer it. Traveling around a city by bus, subway and my own two feet has

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Notes from the Martin Luther King monument

Posted by on Jan 17, 2012 in Notes On..., United States, Washington D.C. | 0 comments

Notes from the Martin Luther King monument

The family posed for an archetypal group shot by the monument: kids in the front, parents in the back, arms draped across shoulders, tooth-revealing smiles. As the stranger-turned-photographer handed the camera back, LCD screen up, the group crowded around it for a quick look before scattering. Only the youngest looking

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