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The View From a Friend's Back Porch: Ninety Yea...
A visit to a friend's new neighborhood opens a ninety-year story of apartments on V Street SE: a 2011 rehabilitation for mothers and families, a later vacancy, and a transition...
The View From a Friend's Back Porch: Ninety Yea...
A visit to a friend's new neighborhood opens a ninety-year story of apartments on V Street SE: a 2011 rehabilitation for mothers and families, a later vacancy, and a transition...
Democracy in the Classroom: Who Actually Holds ...
At a Ward 5 conversation on education, a memory about Jane Eyre opened into a larger question: what happens when residents elect education representatives who do not always hold the...
Democracy in the Classroom: Who Actually Holds ...
At a Ward 5 conversation on education, a memory about Jane Eyre opened into a larger question: what happens when residents elect education representatives who do not always hold the...
God Was Already Here
In Emporia, Virginia, I encountered something deeper than hospitality. I encountered the freedom of being seen without being reduced, judged, or spiritually inspected. From the sanctuary of The Kingdom Church,...
God Was Already Here
In Emporia, Virginia, I encountered something deeper than hospitality. I encountered the freedom of being seen without being reduced, judged, or spiritually inspected. From the sanctuary of The Kingdom Church,...
The C Is for Community
At a Capital Pride fundraiser in Washington, D.C., one Sunday afternoon became a story about friendship, women in business, queer ownership, and the years of work behind Vascano Tequila. What...
The C Is for Community
At a Capital Pride fundraiser in Washington, D.C., one Sunday afternoon became a story about friendship, women in business, queer ownership, and the years of work behind Vascano Tequila. What...
A Ghost in a Country Known for Order
A social-media post led me into the Asian Games accommodation crisis in Japan and raised deeper questions about integrity, disability, leadership, and the distance between an orderly image and an...
A Ghost in a Country Known for Order
A social-media post led me into the Asian Games accommodation crisis in Japan and raised deeper questions about integrity, disability, leadership, and the distance between an orderly image and an...
An Invitation Into the Foreign Affairs Family
Invited by friends to a GLIFAA gathering in Washington, DC, DeAndre, Duke of Hanumanteshwar reflects on Foreign Service, LGBTQIA+ history, institutional memory, and what one generation inherits from another.
An Invitation Into the Foreign Affairs Family
Invited by friends to a GLIFAA gathering in Washington, DC, DeAndre, Duke of Hanumanteshwar reflects on Foreign Service, LGBTQIA+ history, institutional memory, and what one generation inherits from another.