Month: May 2014
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Photography Class – Franciscan Monastery
A lovely friend of mine gave me as a birthday gift a photography class put on by a company called the School of Creative Photography (www.schoolofcreativephotography.com). We spent several hours at a Franciscan monastery in northeast Washington, DC taking photos of the monastery and the surrounding grounds (who knew there was a Franciscan monastery in…
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Inn at Little Washington birthday dinner
We had my birthday dinner at the Inn at Little Washington a couple of weeks ago. The Inn was kind enough to do a somewhat individualized menu for us, and I feel inclined to gloat about the meal, which was fabulous, even by the Inn’s usual impeccable standards. We started off, of course, with truffle…
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Casa Luca (Washington, DC)
Casa Luca is a relatively new restaurant by Fabio Trabocchi, who also started the more well-known Fiola’s and the newly opened Fiola Mare. Casa Luca is the more informal and relaxed sibling of those two restaurants. We dined at Casa Luca as part of a bet over whether the Obamacare website would be fixed by…
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Book review: A Night Like This by Julia Quinn
A Night Like This by Julia Quinn My rating: 3 of 5 stars I love Julia Quinn books as immensely satisfying “mind candy,” whenever I need a break from more serious reading. Her characters are generally well developed, the plots are interesting, and the dialogue is always witty. “A Night Like This” continues the saga…