I was fortunate to live only a few miles from my younger cousins Sara and Lara when growing up. We spent every Sunday playing together at my grandparents’ house and countless occasions having fun with their older brother Jon. Because of Sara and...
Topics: Club Monarch, Family & Friends

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In an area where cheap labor is abundant and construction help is prevalent, it’s quite rare in Northern Virginia to see family and friends come together as we did last weekend at my brother-in-law’s house to build a deck.Many of the...
Topics: construction, family, Family & Friends

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Many people would probably say it’s not worth the effort. Or simply a waste of time and money. But for me, having the perfect lawn is a matter of pride. I want my yard to be the best in the neighborhood.This spring I started transforming it from an.
Topics: Darhele Associate, Family & Friends, Horticultural Solutions, Hybla Valley Nursery, landscaping, lawn

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For as long as I can remember, I’ve been using the Twitter application for Facebook to automatically publish my tweets as my status updates. As an early adopter of Twitter — way back in April 2007 — I initially thought it was a...
Topics: Facebook, Technology, twitter

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Anyone who has spent any time on Capitol Hill probably has a story about Teddy Kennedy, the liberal Massachusetts senator who died today from brain cancer. Mine dates to April 2004 when I was working my first reporting job in Washington at Cybercast News.
Topics: Capitol Hill, Congress, journalism, Media, memogate, Teddy Kennedy

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