My house is always clean.  Yes, I’m that one.  But it’s not because I’m killing myself cleaning, it’s because I find cleaning relaxing and having my house tidy keeps me sane.  Sadly, I live with a man who thinks piling shoes in the entry way and leaving half-drunk water glassed in every makes it look […]

Welcome to the last weekend of Blogust Recess!  I’ve been taking it a little easy around here, a) so I could get a break post-IVF, and b) so I could catch up on work.  Today, I filed my last outstanding piece of work for my day job, which felt great. So I’m clear to head […]

Need a better way to store jewelry when you travel?  Hunting for work or work from home attire?  Need a dress for a special occasion?  Let’s answer some reader questions.

This week has been crazy.  As the pandemic is ending, working is ramping up.  We’re back to the office.  We’re back to court.  Clients want to meet.  And I am realizing how unprepared my summer work wardrobe is, and I can’t be the only one.

Some of you likely remember the days when I responded to reader questions weekly.  Last year, I basically abandoned this practice because the spam coming into the Capitol Hill Style inbox is virtually unconquerable.  500-700 messages a day was just too much to sort through.  But recently, I downloaded a new plug-in that is keeping […]

It’s almost April 1st, and spring is here.  I’m back in the office a few months.  Many of my friends are headed back in June or September.  And it keeps this blog in a bit of a weird holding pattern.

It’s been a while since I’ve tackled reader e-mails here on Capitol Hill Style.  In the frenetic mess that has been the pandemic, something had to fall off of my radar, and it was this.  But over the last week, I’ve had a fresh crop of them, so I thought I would answer a few.

As you know, this is my 13th year of blogging.  I have now been blogging longer than I spent in K-12.  In some ways, it feels like forever.  In others, it feels like yesterday.

When Kyle moved in with me in 2016, we had a rocky start.  Moving in together is always an adjustment, but when both partners work from home, it becomes a trial by fire. We didn’t do well sharing the same space all of the time, and it took us a while to figure out how […]