October 2021 After I moved to the safe house on Perry Place, NE in Washington yet AGAIN with the ever forbearing PM and DV at the end of...

Patton-Fowle House Waterfront City Hall Christ Church. October 2021 a far away escape In the Georgetown years, going to Alexandria was...

July 2019 On my final return to Iraq from the USA, my brother was the one to take me to the airport (Dulles, Washington, DC). We agreed...

August 2017 When I lived in Japan I was shocked at how little Japanese learned in their history classes about World War II and the...

July 2019 In the 6th grade we took a class trip to Washington, DC. We saw the museums, the Capitol, and walked around on the Mall, but...

[from FB post: July 22, 2013] There was a problem with a train at the Dupont Circle metro that caused it to smoke excessively. We all...

North Corner Boundary Stone, District of Columbia. April 2013 Mega-walks Life was in a huge pause. I was in the process of looking for...

Environmental Protection Agency, Constitution Avenue December 2021 An old love affair gone sour In my childhood seeing the Federal...

Gallery Place/Chinatown. December 2021 In 1976, the inaugural stretch of the Red Line ran from Rhode Island Avenue to Farragut North...

Sackler Gallery, Museum of Asian Art, Smithsonian Insitution. December 2021 Bringing outside inside Under the Enid Haupt Garden behind...

National Building Museum. December 2020. National Building Museum Interior. July 2018 The Pension Building Exiting the metro at...

Georgetown University Gate, Healy Building. November 2021 “One of the greatest tragedies in life is to lose your own sense of self and...

Great Hall, Library of Congress. September 2021 My favorite American building The grand design of the library's Thomas Jefferson...

Kennedy Center. September 2021 The Group Leader Sometimes I wonder how we lived in the pre-internet age. One of the advantages of living...

DC Court of Appeals, Judiciary Square. December 2021 Time rolls on This neo-classical building rises on the south side of Judiciary...

Rotunda, Art & Industries Building, Smithsonian Institute: December 2021 Slow and steady The new national museum, the Smithsonian,...

Apple Store (ex Carnegie Library), Mt Vernon Square. December 2021 Gutted Andrew Carnegie built libraries across the United States with...

Renwick Gallery, Smithsonian Institute. December 2021 American Indian Portraits, George Catlin, National Portrait Gallery. August 2017...

St Helena, c. 1495, Cima da Conegliano, National Gallery of Art. December 2021 Church of the Holy Sepulchre, Jerusalem. June 2018 ...

Smithson Crypt, Smithsonian Castle. December 2021 The strange story of James Smithson and the creation of the Smithsonian Institution...