First published on RootsRated.com Washington DC’s central location in the mid-Atlantic makes it a perfect jumping off point to many awesome day trips in Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, and West Virginia. Here, we bring you some of our favorite excursions in the area. Some are great for water lovers, some perfect for hikers. All are, […]
Hit the specialty stores. One day at Hana Japanese market in DC, I found myself loading up on ingredients that I either don’t normally use or cannot find at my regular grocery. This one act resulted in a totally different style of cooking, at least for that week, and later led me to latin American markets, […]
There is only one Bolshoi. Last spring, to finish that sentence, I would have said “there is only one Bolshoi Ballet.” But, when I got to the famed theater in Moscow I was schooled. It is actually called, “the Bolshoi Theater.” This matters to me simply because I had intended to go to the imperial palace to […]
They say that all people in Greece are governed by religion and tradition. The third governor is food. Eating is thought to cure everything. You have a cold? You must eat. Having relationship trouble? Eat! You will have no strength for tears on an empty stomach. In short, food is love. At traditional food establishments […]
It is Thursday March 14th = Pi Day. From PiDay.Org: Pi Day is celebrated on March 14th (3/14) around the world. Pi (Greek letter “π”) is the symbol used in mathematics to represent a constant — the ratio of the circumference of a circle to its diameter — which is approximately 3.14159. Pi has been […]
Are your friends creative and completely vulgar? Ours are too. So you’ll believe us when we say that if you get your posse together to play this card game (we recommend with cocktails) you might actually make yourself nauseous by laughing so hard – a really good thing! It’s a simple concept, one player per round asks a […]
Life is good. A fact we all too often forget. With all of the trials we go through during life, it is not surprising that we sometimes focus on all that is negative rather than on what is positive. Sometimes life is painful, but usually and more often, life is good. So, in an effort to celebrate […]
Right before sunrise tomorrow morning – Friday, December 28, 2012 at around 5:21 (EST) – a full moon will pass through 180 degrees from the Sun in Earth-based longitude, appearing full for about 3 days centered on this time (from Wednesday evening through Saturday.) It is named “The Wolf Moon” because it is the first […]
The Theme for 2012 : Many Backgrounds, Many Stories…One American Spirit Every year, from September 15 to October 15, Americans observe National Hispanic Heritage Month through celebration of the culture and contributions brought to America by their Spanish, Mexican, the Caribbean and Central and South American ancestors. This event began in 1968 as Hispanic Heritage […]
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