It was my son who found out first that Obama would be speaking at our local high school. He got a Facebook invitation.
So we went to a very temporary campaign office in Falls Church and stood in line for about 30 minutes to get tickets (two apiece) for the following Sunday.
“Stand for Change: Town Hall [...]
The topic at yesterday’s Roundtable sponsored by the Alexandria Small Business Development Center was on giving and getting referrals. Most of us are on either side of the fence regularly. In the past few days, I have referred colleagues to the photographer who did some work for me, a voice coach in a women’s network [...]
We members of the Alexandria Sister Cities Committee had a busy weekend. We hosted mayors from three of our four sister cities (or “twins,” as the less gender-specific Europeans call them)–Caen, France; Dundee, Scotland; and Helsingborg, Sweden. A fourth mayor, sort of a relative once-removed, also visited from Wurzburg, Germany, which is twinned with Caen [...]
