Each year buyers and sellers want to know if we’ve hit the spring market yet. This year, the answer is pretty clear.

I don’t know about you, but it seems nearly impossible to find really good Italian food in the DC Metropolitan Area. Now a new store in Westover offers a delicious solution.

I drove by the Cabin John Center yesterday after work to see if China Gourmet Bistro was having its Grand Opening as planned. The new sign was in place and there were six large bouquets of flowers and balloons set-up outside. This would be the third Chinese Restaurant in this location since we moved to West Bethesda in 2005.

Have you ever gone to a restaurant where everyone else seems to be a regular? The manager and wait staff greet each customer by name and appear to know all about them and each member of their party. Have you been to a place like that recently? I have.

I don’t think there is anyone who was living during those attacks who won’t remember that horrible day. We were all stunned by news that came to us one attack after another. Some people lost loved ones. Most Americans felt the events as an attack against our country. There was a feeling that we were vulnerable.