Tag: Bethesda

• Country Mouse to City Mouse

  Today is Thursday, March 12, 2026, and it is snowing here in Rockville, Maryland, a suburb of the Washington, DC metropolitan area. MARCH…it’s snowing in MARCH. After the winter we have had, it’s really in poor form for it to be snowing today. Now, granted, the ground is far too warm for anything to stick,…

  michardillo

  March 12, 2026

  Essay

  Annie Sez, Bethesda, Cordell Avenue, DC, Golden Book, groundhog, Groundhog Day, Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport, Louisiana, March snow, Maryland, Punxsuatawney Phil, Rockville, snow, The Country Mouse and the City Mouse, Triangle Towers, Washington, winter

• Small Town Girl in a Big City

  The Mary Tyler Moore Show, which aired from 1970 to 1977, was a sitcom about a young single woman moving to the big city of Minneapolis. The show began my freshman year of high school and lasted through my junior year of college. It was designed as a star vehicle for Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017),…

  michardillo

  September 2, 2020

  Essay

  Bethesda, Dick Van Dyke, Hammond, Louisiana, Mary Tyler Moore, Maryland

• Comfort Food, or a Meal for Comfort?

  I was born and raised in southeast Louisiana. I didn’t go far for college, only 100 miles, and after graduation I stayed in my college town until I moved to the Washington, DC, area in early 1988. Thus, for over thirty years, I ate, drank, and lived the life of a true member of “GRITS”,…

  michardillo

  August 2, 2015

  Essay

  Bethesda, brownies, chicken, chocolate, comfort food, DC, Dorothy, Fire King Tulip Mixing Bowl, GRITS, Gumbo, Hurricane Katrina, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, potato salad, sausage, southern traditions, Toto, Washington