Reflecting on this year, strange and challenging as it may have been, I still feel a sense of gratitude this Thanksgiving. At the...

At the intersection of 7th and T Street NW currently stands a school, a bank, a CVS and a Chinese restaurant. In the summer of 1919,...

When you are a DC resident you can't help but be confronted by politics every day, which can be both thrilling and exhausting. The last...

(K Street at Dawn) One side effect of studying the history of a city in depth is that you start to imagine it as it was, both the good...

I've been thinking quite a bit lately about unconventional women. Despite three waves of feminism, and possibly being in the middle of a...

Back in the 1950s through the 70s, the US Government was fighting what they saw as a life or death battle for global supremacy with the...

If you have ever taken my Madams of DC tour, this is a refrain you may have heard me state a couple of times: #Prostitutesarepeople...

I was a macabre kid from the get-go, let's just get that right out there. For some reason I had very romantic notions of death since...

The State Department is where I've spent the last fifteen years of my career. I was fascinated by the lives of diplomats past and...

I just had my first "official" tour! Huzzah! Finally the planning stage went into the execution stage. Fighting my imposter syndrome, I...

As I am on the eve of officially launching this whole endeavor, the list of "what ifs" starts to pile up, as well as the "to dos", and...

Ah yes, a question I've heard many a time in my life. I have loved wearing costumes since I was a little girl. Halloween has always been...

There are hundreds of industries that have been impacted by the Coronavirus pandemic, and one of those dearest to my heart is the tourism...

I think it's safe to say that I've done about half my traveling solo. There is a benefit to traveling by oneself. You can do exactly what...

I was recently talking to a friend about how music has the power to take us back in time. A song from your childhood, or your teenage...

In 2016 I took the plunge and carried out a plan that I had been working on for almost a year. I was taking six months of unpaid leave...

This is my first blog post for Off the Mall Tours, and it marks the official beginning of this website! Fittingly, my first post will be...