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“I wanted to share a little light in this hard time.”

By Prince Of Petworth

“Dear PoPville,

I wanted to share a little light in this hard time. My apartment looks out to an alley with another building on the other side. This morning, I saw a note taped to my neighbor’s window. It’s hard to read, but we think it says “Dear cat across the alley, thanks for being cute!” Of course, Midge said thank you. Right now, it’s the little things that mean so much!”

“Reminder to be kind to strangers”

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by PoPville flickr user John Sonderman

“Dear PoPville,

Just wanted to share an experience I had this morning as a reminder to be kind to strangers, since we’re all struggling with mental health right now.

I was on a long bike ride for the first time in a week, heading down to see the cherry blossoms for sunrise. Around 6:30am, I was biking through the mall on the path parallel to 15th Street, following my partner who was on a bikeshare. When we peeled off the road onto the path, I pointed my headlight toward the ground so I wouldn’t bother the couple of people we passed and slowed way down as I generally do on mixed-use paths. (more…)

A Smile or Three For Ya

By Prince Of Petworth

Thanks to Sam a lam for sending from H Street, NE above.

Covid Christmas Trees are everywhere!! Thanks to Kristen for sending the above from Hill East.

Thanks to Allie for sending “Tim the Tree from Capital Hill” above.

And thanks to John Denver forever.

“Peak bloom by week’s end.”

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by PoPville fickr user angela n.

From the National Mall NPS:

“Petals pushing through.
Trees at stage five – puffy white;
Peak bloom by week’s end.”

And while we wait thanks to Molly for sending: “a lovely peach blossom from Bloomingdale!”

And thanks to Hanna for sending this nice idea from the Hillwood Museum: (more…)

“It truly brought me so much joy.”

By Prince Of Petworth


1717 M Street, NW

Thanks to Mary for sending:

“Sending this piece of sunshine this Tuesday. As I turned down 15th Street from Connecticut this morning I heard a second line band playing – it paraded down from what looked like St. Matthews to Caruso Florist to wish Mr. Caruso a happy birthday. That’s Mr. Caruso in the middle and you can see the man on the right holding a birthday cake. It truly brought me so much joy.”

Update from Jen: “This made my day as well. We found out it’s his 90th birthday! And then we were gifted some free roses for celebrating”

“But they forgot to account for one thing: A one-year-old stomping over our heads 24/7.”

By Prince Of Petworth


Photo by PoPville flickr user Caitlin Faw

“Dear PoPville,

I need advice. I live in a beautiful, relatively new condo building. The developers kept the historic facade intact but gutted and rebuilt the interior of the building. High-end hardwood floors, great appliances… They even sound-proofed the place to a great extent, which is a luxury in DC. But they forgot to account for one thing: A one-year-old stomping over our heads 24/7. I love kids and want kids myself one day.

However, our upstairs neighbors’ kid stomps around the apartment – especially early in the mornings. Our sleep quality is almost non-existent at this point. Who needs a 7 am alarm when a kid stomps around over your head starting at 6 am, right? You want to sleep in on a Sunday? Too bad, the kid will wake you up around 7-7:30am. We emailed our neighbors directly but they either don’t seem to care or are not really cut out for parenting and don’t actually know how to regulate their kid’s behavior. They don’t say no to their kid or tell him to stop because he “throws a temper tantrum.”

[Ed. Note: Now hold on a second. It’s not necessarily fair to judge parenting through walls. As the parent of two little kids myself, one who wakes up very early, I can tell you first hand that there is zero way to “regulate that behavior”. I have tried alarm clocks, the stick to the carrot, tears to begging, prayers to all major deities and my kid wakes up when she wakes up. (more…)

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