This blog post is just a small snapshot into my Historic Alleyways tour, the last of the first four Off the Mall Tours that I developed....

On the corner of S and 15th Street is a pretty grey-and-white house that once belonged to the woman who was responsible for one of the...

On the southeast corner of the intersection of 12th and U Street NW, there is an office building that until very recently had a Starbucks...

Navy Yard is one of those neighborhoods in DC that is essentially 90% unrecognizable from even just ten years ago. The modern multi-story...

Oh the 80s, a decade that defined a generation who spent it separating themselves from its Baby Boomer parents; a decade that saw the...

If you’ve been to any major city in Europe you may have come across the old central markets, many that are still in use today. Typically...

These days it's not too hard to find a drag show in the District. There is Perry's in Adams Morgan, one of the most well known drag...

Something I love about DC is that no matter how long I live here, there always seems to be something new to discover. Sometimes it's the...

Reflecting on this year, strange and challenging as it may have been, I still feel a sense of gratitude this Thanksgiving. At the...

At the intersection of 7th and T Street NW currently stands a school, a bank, a CVS and a Chinese restaurant. In the summer of 1919,...

When you are a DC resident you can't help but be confronted by politics every day, which can be both thrilling and exhausting. The last...

(K Street at Dawn) One side effect of studying the history of a city in depth is that you start to imagine it as it was, both the good...

I've been thinking quite a bit lately about unconventional women. Despite three waves of feminism, and possibly being in the middle of a...

Back in the 1950s through the 70s, the US Government was fighting what they saw as a life or death battle for global supremacy with the...

If you have ever taken my Madams of DC tour, this is a refrain you may have heard me state a couple of times: #Prostitutesarepeople...

I was a macabre kid from the get-go, let's just get that right out there. For some reason I had very romantic notions of death since...

The State Department is where I've spent the last fifteen years of my career. I was fascinated by the lives of diplomats past and...

I just had my first "official" tour! Huzzah! Finally the planning stage went into the execution stage. Fighting my imposter syndrome, I...

As I am on the eve of officially launching this whole endeavor, the list of "what ifs" starts to pile up, as well as the "to dos", and...

Ah yes, a question I've heard many a time in my life. I have loved wearing costumes since I was a little girl. Halloween has always been...