A map showing the spread of the Roman empire.

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A few things I’ve learned in six decades on the planet

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Never rain on someone’s happiness and never deprive another person from being happy or becoming happy. People are fragile and for a ...

The Corcoran, Himself

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William Wilson Corcoran (December 27, 1798 – February 24, 1888) was a banker, philanthropist, and art collector who gave Washington...

Madam of the Mall

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Mary Ann Hall (died January 29, 1886) ran a successful brothel from the 1840s until about 1878 at 349 Maryland Avenue SW, Washingt...

How can you not love West Virginia?

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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal

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The Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, abbreviated as the C&O Canal and occasionally called the "Grand Old Ditch," operated from...

Walked out on the bridge today to snap a photo of the Potomac and a train came by

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The rules of engagement are that you can chase Eli all over the house for his toys, but magically, you cannot reach under the coffee table

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Second best thing that happened to me today:

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Second best thing that happened to me today: I was headed home and spotted these horses in a field...where else would they be... and stoppe...

Our house

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writer hint

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Nothing that happens to you as a writer is ever wasted 

writers hint

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A writer is a person who pays attention to the world and everything in it

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                Finish your first draft.  You MUST do this.

writers hint

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You will, from to time, hate your work. Welcome to the club. Keep working.

writers hint

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Being a writer was never a choice for you and I. It was a compulsion.

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Victor Hugo said it best “A writer is a world trapped in a person”

Coolest thing I saw today

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It took these cows like 9 years to walk across the field to see what I was doing and I felt guilty about making them walk that far so I ...

writers hint

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Listen to what others AREN’T saying and write about that