Blog from the 'burbs

June 12, 2009

Ten Thousand Villages: Beautiful for you, beautiful for the artisans

This past week I had the privilege of meeting two men from Kenya who are making a tour of the Ten Thousand Villages shops on the East Coast to talk about their handcrafts. ... [more]

May 29, 2009

Welcome, Firefighters from Haiti

Ben Stubenberg writes about a group of men and women from Haiti who have come for fire and rescue training at the Montgomery County Fire Rescue Service (MCFRS) Training Academy. ... [more]

May 15, 2009

Peerless Rockville's Extreme Green Tour of Tower Oaks

Thank you to Maude McGovern, Mary van Balgooy and the other folks who run Peerless Rockville Historic Preservation for a superb execution of the "Extreme Green Tour" last Saturday. ... [more]

November 29, 2008

Five things that are new at RockvilleLiving.com

Over the past six months, I've been working on making some visual and infrastructure changes to RockvilleLiving.com in an effort to turn it into a true "community web resource" instead of just a listing of some businesses and events happening in Rockville ... [more]

November 17, 2008

A film about the environmental cost of war

Yesterday, I acquired two new heroes, Lincoln and Alice Day, whose film was shown at the Rockville library ... [more]

September 30, 2008

Fall Bikeride to Sugarloaf Mountain

On weekends, I usually end up being a bicycle widow. After the ritual filling of water bottles and stashing of power beans, my husband pulls his "trusty steed" out of the garage and heads for points north ... [more]

September 25, 2008

Another look at Beall's Grant II

Since I first heard and posted about the proposed Beall's Grant II project last April, the project has come under more intense scrutiny from the public. ... [more]

September 16, 2008

Mowing without gas

I've been using a Brill 380 battery-powered lawn mower for the past two summers and have been pretty happy with the job it does on our lawn. ... [more]

September 4, 2008

Daryl Davis band at Rockville Jazz Festival

My latest band-crush is the Daryl Davis band, who closed the Rockville Jazz Festival on Saturday. I don't know which makes me happier ... [more]

April 20, 2008

Green, affordable, and right here in Rockville

Rockville leads the way with affordable workforce housing once more with a new project in the works: Beall's Grant II. Undertaken by Montgomery Housing Partnership ... [more]