Growing old with your best friend
By Stephanie Sabin
You are outside playing with Fido when you notice his gait is slower, his ability to see the ball is becoming harder,...
A house worth fawning over
Fawn Baranko became an interior designer and opened her own firm, Interiors by Fawn, after 20 years spent working as a Navy nurse. Interior...
Craig Rice takes on Montgomery County’s growing hunger crisis
By Suzanne Pollak
Before Craig Rice ever worked for Ronald McDonald House or was elected to the Maryland General Assembly or sat on the Montgomery...
Say ‘I do’ to your dream wedding — and your dudget
It’s a big year for weddings — from Tom and Zendaya to Taylor and Travis, matrimony is on the cultural radar. Not everyone has...
What If Harriet Tubman Had a Jewish Friend? New Play Explores Possibility
A vivid dream inspired Louise Kelley’s latest play, “Harriet and Ruth,” about Maryland-born abolitionist Harriet Tubman and a fictional friend, Ruth Schreiben, a Jewish...
Saving spaces with Dara Beitler Interiors
Dara Beitler taught herself interior design while working on a two-story addition on her own home in 2014. She now helps other people transform...
Meet Natalie West: Immediate past chair, Charles E. Smith Life Communities
By Caryn R. Sagal
Syracuse native Natalie West cherished visiting her great-grandmother at the Jewish Home, feeling comfortable around the caregivers’ smiling faces and
taking pony...
On the roads where it happened
As the United States turns 250, it feels wrong to just commemorate from the couch, and maybe a little too comfortable to limit the...
On Bored: Traveling With My 15-Year-Old to New York
It began as a joke.
We boarded the train and sat down. I was traveling with my 15-year-old daughter, Alice. I looked up at the...
How Sho and Co’s Shoshanna Shapiro filled this empty nest in North Potomac
By Jillian Diamond
While Shoshanna Shapiro had done interior design work before opening her firm, Sho and Co, she considered herself a mom first and...