There’s a new real estate office in Upper Northwest DC. Keller Williams Capital Properties officially launched their latest Market Center in Tenleytown.

When I ask first time homebuyers what they are looking for in their buyer’s agent, they generally say the same four things…

You know that first really cold day of Autumn? The day that the sun is shining, but it’s cold and windy and it gives you a chill that you haven’t had in a long time. The day that as a child, your mom would have made you a grilled cheese sandwich and tomato soup…

It’s been a very long time since I spent my Sunday evenings tending bar at the Dupont Circle institution and neighborhood dive bar known as Mr. Eagan’s. In fact, it was on a St. Patrick’s Day many years ago that Jimmy Eagan closed his Irish Pub and left town. Cafe Citron now stands where Mr. Eagan’s stood for 32 years ending with Mr. Eagan’s Last Call at 1:30am, March 18, 1999. That was also the day I retired from bar tending.

When I went away to college my freshman year, my father made me a great little tool box from the tool collection I had at home. It turned out I was the only person (not the only woman, the only person) in my dormitory to have any tools at all. That is when I realized I was a “tool girl.”