by Kathy E. Sykes It was a twist of fate that steered me to becoming a member of the board of directors of America Walks this past April. Here’s what happened. While attending the Active Living Research conference many years ago, I met some activists and researchers who were launching a national organization to make […]
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What I do: Help couples form happier and healthier relationships
Deborah Fox is a couples therapist practicing in Forest Hills and a former Murch parent, which is how I know her. We went for a walk one day and she talked about her work. I was fascinated, and thought our readers would be too. She agreed to answer my questions. – Marlene Berlin What is […]
What I do: Get girls running for their physical and emotional health
by Amanda Marr I am a (fairly) long-time resident of the Forest Hills neighborhood, arriving here in 2006 after a couple of years in DuPont Circle. Driving around the neighborhood, I questioned whether or not we were still really in DC. Immediately, I was sold. I first resided on Linnean Avenue before moving to the […]
What I do: Write a fantasy novel for a smartphone age
by Anthony Dobranski Most Forest Hills readers know me for my serial novel about our area in WWII, The Scientists and the Spy – which is coming back next spring. While I wrote Scientists, however, I was seeking a publisher for my first novel, and I succeeded! My first novel, the international modern-day fantasy The […]
What I Do: Help Senegalese Women Reach Their Goals
Jennie Browning is a friend of my older daughter’s. They attended school together at Murch, Deal, and Wilson (’02). After college, Jennie went to Senegal and worked for the United Nations and for the U.S. Embassy from 2008-2011. During her time there, she also started a non-profit organization, Ladies’ Turn (www.ladiesturn.org), dedicated to giving women […]
What I Do: Bring Rowing to DC’s “Other” River
Forest Hills neighbor Paul Pearlstein has been a “river rat” since 1953, when he joined Washington-Lee High School’s rowing team. When he’s not on the river, he’s practicing law part-time or leading tours at the Smithsonian American History Museum. In this piece, he describes how he and other like-minded volunteers founded a rowing community on […]
What I Do: Educate Afghan Women
by Susan Crudgington I belong to an organization called The Initiative to Educate Afghan Women, which was started ten years ago by a woman named Paula Nirschel. Paula was horrified by the news reports coming out of Afghanistan of young women kept from schools by the Taliban. She scoured this country for scholarships and that […]
Local Business Spotlight: The dentist who can help you sleep
The journey to better sleep could start inside your mouth. Dr. Sareeta Gupta practiced general dentistry when she founded her dental practice at Van Ness Center 13 years ago. Five years ago, she transitioned to sleep dentistry and founded Sleep Well DC (sleepwelldc.net). What is sleep dentistry? It’s not to be confused with sedation dentistry, […]
Meet Your Neighbors: Thanks to this Weed Warrior, invasive plants don’t stand a chance
by Marlene Berlin John Burwell has appeared on our pages several times over the past three years for his work as a volunteer caregiver of our daylighted and restored streams, Broad Branch and Linnean. For example, we recently wrote about the signs he designed, built and posted at these two parks. Burwell’s home is actually […]
How Sheridan School got its tree sculpture
by Carolyn Jacobson Most people, when left with a tree stump after a storm, will quickly arrange to have it removed. That wasn’t the case, however, at the Sheridan School at 4400 36th Street NW. When the power company recently cut down a section of a dead pine tree close to the power lines in […]