Climate March

The Climate March was the weekend after the March for Science, only many degrees hotter. Fitting considering the theme of the march…

March for Science

Rain didn't stop thousands of scientists from taking to the streets here in Washington and throughout the country and world. Very empowering, but also sad that such a protest was necessary. 

Infinity Mirrors Exhibit

Yayoi Kusama's Infinity Mirrors exhibit at the Hirshhorn Museum - pretty spectacular!:

Writing a Novel!

One of the reasons why I haven't been blogging much lately is that I have another blog only viewable by me as I work on writing the first book of a fantasy series that I have had swimming around in my head for over a decade. It's not the always evolving plot that has been in my head so much as some of the principle characters and imagined world that I wish I too could find my way into one day.

Without wanting to give too much away, here are a few of the many fantastic drawings I found and pinned on a locked Pinterest board that most closely match some of the settings in my novel:

Board Games!

I finally expanded my storage space and have a whole bookcase to store my board games. Newest games purchased, next to try: Pandemic, Forbidden Desert, and the expansion to Castle Panic. I also found a great game store called Labyrinth, just by the Eastern Market Metro station: Labyrinth

My current favorite: Pandemic. I roped my mother into coming over for a day of geeky gaming the other day and we managed to win the first time through (she takes gaming very seriously--good thing this is a cooperative game!), so next time we may need to set the difficulty level higher than "novice", but a great game with lots of available expansions.

Women's March on Washington, 21 January, 2017

After watching yesterday's historically depressing inauguration, it was great to head downtown with my mother to participate in the March on Washington, along with a crowd rivaling the largest Vietnam War protests, some of which my mother participated in. Minimum crowd estimate so far is 500,000 but those of us who were there are certain the crowd was substantially larger. The Metro was so crowded, although we just barely grabbed a spot just inside the doors of a train going downtown in the morning, we gave up trying to get back to my neighborhood on the Metro and walked all the way from the White House, through Dupont Circle, to my apartment.

The March was entirely peaceful so I did laugh a little when I overheard one Trump supporter say to another (inside the Natural History Museum, where we stopped in briefly for lunch), "I like your hat" (referring to the red baseball hats that say "Make America Great Again"), to which the other Trump supporter said "I like yours too; it makes me feel safe"(referring to us protestors, most of whom wore pink "pussy hats").

DC thanks Obama

I passed by this wonderful display of notes thanking the Obamas at a quirky little store called "Wake Up Little Suzie" where I often shop ion my way to get groceries at the local market. Next week will be sad indeed...