Author Archives: JJD
Hurricane Report: 17h00
We’re in the middle of our hurricane weekend. Irene has been working her way up the coast all morning. The rain started here a little before noon; the wind didn’t really start until the early afternoon. When I went running at 1:30pm, it was through a medium downpour with gusting winds. Things have gradually gotten worse […]
I love you, Irene!
I love, love, love the natural disasters we get in Washington, DC. They don’t wreak anywhere near the havoc and devastation that their more ferocious cousins do in places like Haiti and Japan — but they provide endless entertainment for me, and they get me out of stuff I don’t want to do. For example: A couple […]
Earthquake!
Today I moved into a new office at the law firm — from a tenth floor office on the atrium to a sixth floor office with a window overlooking 12th Street. As I was settling into my new digs, I heard some creaking noises. Then I felt a bump. That’s strange, I thought, another office move upstairs must […]
Appalachian Trail – Bluff Trail
A good friend of mine from law school, Amy, moved to DC after finishing a clerkship in Iowa, and we’ve been making a concerted effort to get out of the city more to explore the various hiking trails in the region. We’ve both spent considerable time in the Rockies, and we both readily admit to […]
Not so loud!
Normally in you’d think that hearing the words, “You’ve lost weight again” would be a good thing. Not when they’re delivered by your long-suffering trainer in a voice full of disappointment and disapproval. Most definitely not when that voice is loud enough to make all the people in the gym who just wish someone would say that […]
Is this what "balance" feels like?
I spent the last nine months splitting my time between the general counsel’s office of a Washington newspaper and my regular law firm. Each week I’d spend three days working at the newspaper and the other four days working at the firm. There was a lot that was great about this arrangement: I got a glimpse of […]
Davis Siblings
I sure do love these people! Ashley, moi, Heather, Mark This is us last Monday at Heather’s house in Boise, right before I flew back to DC. (It’s actually Heather’s photo, but when she posted it to Facebook I thought it deserved a home here, too.)
Wall Colors (can you tell we’re related?)
I live in Washington, DC. My twin sister, Heather, lives in Boise, Idaho. Totally independently, and without any input from the other, we each painted accent walls in our homes. I brought some giant paint chips with me when I visited Heather last weekend to give her a sense of what I’d done. Strangely enough, […]
Nouveau chez moi
As you know, I moved into a new apartment back in June. Since moving day, I have enjoyed a six-week visit from Amanda, an Aretha Franklin concert, a two-week trip to Peru, a weekend at the beach, a weekend in Charlottesville, a bout of illness, and a long weekend with my family in Idaho. Oh, […]
De retour
It’s kind of hard to get back into the swing of things after a long weekend. Unlike a two-week trek through a foreign continent, which tends to get one ready to come back to regular life, a long weekend usually just whets my appetite for more vacation. Let’s just say that my body was at […]
A More Gentlemanlike Manner 