Full disclosure, my wife co-authored this book, so I can’t claim to be impartial. Washington, DC is my adopted home city. I moved to the area more… Read more “Book Review: 111 Places in Women’s History (in Washington, DC) that You Must Not Miss”
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Book Review: The Lives of Dillon Ripley
There’s rich, and then there’s inherited wealth rich. Truly wealthy people don’t live like the rest of us, their world isn’t like ours. Dillon Ripley was born… Read more “Book Review: The Lives of Dillon Ripley”
A Walk Along the C&O Canal
A couple weeks back I took a walk along the Georgetown part of the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal. They’ve been working on some renovations for the last… Read more “A Walk Along the C&O Canal”
All Roads (and tracks) Lead to Rome
With Florence serving as the base of our 2016 trip to Italy, we took a two hour high-speed train ride to Rome for a day in the… Read more “All Roads (and tracks) Lead to Rome”
Book Review: Odessa
The subtitle of this book is ‘Genius and Death in the City of Dreams.’ That seems very accurate. Charles King takes us through the relatively brief history… Read more “Book Review: Odessa”
Matthew J. Constantine 