Category: Living in DC

  • My Government-Subsidized Breakfast

    My Government-Subsidized Breakfast

    “Medical Center,” a robotic voice echos over the speaker as the metro hurls into the faint light of the station. I exit the station around 8:30 AM just in time to stop at my favorite breakfast place: Walter Reed Medical Center. I enter the hospital through a heavy metal door…

  • I Used to Like Driving Until I Started Taking the Metro

    I Used to Like Driving Until I Started Taking the Metro

    I’ll never forget those late nights that were spent driving around the Jacksonville suburbs with my family. “Mom, can we drive around?” I would ask. “Sure, go get in the car!” We’d spend an hour or so driving with the windows down and the music loud, and, like a neglected…