Category Archives: Travel

MY DC | Union Market

Just before the holidays, I had the chance to check out the new Union Market…it’s the result of the restoration/rehabilitation of the old DC Farmer’s Market — which was itself built to replace the old Center Market, built in 1871.   It’s filled with stalls for different food vendors — think artisinal snacks, fancy teas…

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MY DC | Smithsonian American Art Museum & National Portrait Gallery

The Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery are housed together in what was once the U.S. Patent Office. (And according to their website, it also served as a hospital and morgue during the Civil War — where poet Walt Whitman helped tend to soldiers — and was the site of Lincoln’s second…

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ROADTRIP: DISNEY

Disney World with the munchkins = absolute chaos…   …but also fantastic, awesome fun. ;-)   We spent six crazy days with Nana, Papa, both my sisters and their husbands and all the kids, including little Garrett (five months!), Reilly (two), Allie (three), Evan (who turns five in just a few days), and Little Miss…

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