Jill Berry

My Fave Place in DC: The International Spy Museum

by Jill Berry April 12, 2012 Around Town

I’m a big believer in fairness. Fairness makes me feel like a better person. But, I can also be left feeling that adjudicating what is fair is a thankless task. Take a squabble between two children over the only blue soccer ball. Who is to say who had the ball first. I wasn’t there. Child [...]

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Sharing a Childhood Favorite with Your Kids: ‘The Muppets’

by Jill Berry March 23, 2012 Entertainment

Growing up, Britain’s three TV channels showed mostly news, horse racing, and comedy shows. Slim pickings. On a day home from school, I would often take a nap to while away the day since there was nothing good on TV. But, weekend evening TV was another story. The dearth of choice during the day was [...]

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My Fave Place in DC — The Newseum

by Jill Berry September 15, 2011 Around Town

When you live in a city for years, it is easy to fall in to the trap of seeing the same sights over and over again. That is how it was for me. I moved to D.C. as a junior in college after my parents emigrated from England to the DC Metro area. From about [...]

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9/11 — Then and Now

by Jill Berry September 8, 2011 Child

It was an ordinary Tuesday. My kindergartener was settled in to the routine of the elementary school. My preschooler was learning the ropes at her new preschool. I was kneeling on my bedroom floor leafing through a set of galley proofs for a book that was due to be returned to the printer that afternoon. [...]

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