It’s campaign time! That means, for the next month many of you will be devoting practically all of your time and energy to someone other than yourself or to a cause dear to your heart. In keeping with campaign tradition, the closer you get to Election Day the less attention you will pay to your [...]
If I had a dollar for every package of M&M’s I ate during my lifetime, I would not be sitting here blogging. I would be blogging from my yacht moored off the Bahamas. Okay, maybe I’m exaggerating, but only a little. I’ll admit it took me a while to get used to the blue ones, [...]
Below is an op-ed I wrote that appeared in the 4/19 issue of THE HILL. Long days, high stress behind Capitol Hill exodus By Tricia Ferrone How ironic is it that after working on historic healthcare legislation exhausted staffers are ready to close the books on their own history-making careers on Capitol Hill. Staffers from [...]
We just started the third month of the New Year and it is time to see how your commitment to starting a regular workout in 2010 is actually working out. Now, if just reading the word “exercise” made you cringe – even just a little – I think it’s safe to say that you have [...]
Whenever a Hill staffer tells me that the demands of his or her job prevent them from being in a “relationship”, my usual response is, “Only if you think it does.” Yes, it’s true your job presents some challenges, but it is not going to prevent you from having a “relationship”. On the contrary, if [...]
THE TRIPLE-DOG-DARE The other day, my sister called me to say she just heard a news report about a boy in Boise, Idaho who got his tongue stuck to a pole. Yes, just like Flick from “A Christmas Story,” and, just like in the movie, the local fire department came to his rescue. Thank goodness, [...]
Do you have too much shopping left to do and so little time left in which to do it? No worries. Below is a list of wonderful shops conveniently located right on the Hill where you can find everything and anything you need or want to buy for the holidays. The list, which was drawn [...]
At the end of Act II in Thornton Wilder’s iconic play, “Our Town,” the character Louella Soames says, “Happiness, that’s the great thing! The most important thing is to be happy.” I am familiar with this line because I played Mrs. Soames in a community theatre production of “Our Town”. The play ran during the [...]
Back in January, leadership of the House and Senate announced their proposed legislative schedules for the first session of the 111th Congress. The House expected (hoped) to recess by October 30, just in time to go trick or treating. The Senate recess date was TBD (what a surprise), although, secretly, the “upper body” was hoping [...]
Since ancient times, people have celebrated the Autumnal Equinox with all types of pagan rituals and religious traditions. When I was a staffer,a good friend of mine (who shall remain nameless here – but you know who you are) and I celebrated the Autumnal Equinox by engaging in our own pagan ritual. We would wander [...]
