Washington, DC, is a city known for burning people out, yet trees appear to weather the hot air in our nation’s capital better than our politicians. The beloved cherry trees that serpentine through parks and along the Potomac river are still going strong after 100 years. In 1912, Tokyo gave DC 3,000 trees and wished…
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Miss Anna Goes to Washington
Last time Anna was in Washington, D.C., she was about the size of a grapefruit. I was six months pregnant, it was the second week of January, the war in Iraq was not quite a year old, and we were preparing a move to New Jersey. Since Anna never got a chance to experience the…