washingtonpost.com - John KellyJohn KellyStopping By for a Nice Chat- April 23, 2005 Every Friday at 1 p.m. finds me sitting at my desk, staring at my computer screen. There's nothing unusual about this. I spend a lot of time sitting at my desk, staring at my computer screen. What's different about Fridays is that people are staring back.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7861-2005Apr21.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/k... An Artful Stop for Metro- April 23, 2005 Every morning while passing through the New York Avenue-Florida Avenue-Gallaudet U Metro station on my way downtown I see the tip of what appears to be a giant metal maple leaf stuck to the outside of the station. Is it a maple leaf, and if so, what in the world is it doing on the side of a Metro stationhttp://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42669-2005Apr10.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... Bridges Carry Bits of History Along With the Traffic- April 23, 2005 Most of the bridges that carry us over the moister parts of our region are named after people or things we recognize.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1129-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/k... Mixing Love and Baseball- April 23, 2005 When she was a 15-year-old student at McKinley Tech in the District, Kate Sunday fell in love with a Washington Senators batboy.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A11312-2005Mar29.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... A Ticket for Trouble at Home- April 23, 2005 That bloodcurdling scream you heard Monday afternoon was My Lovely Wife's reaction upon learning that my friend Steve had invited me to a Nationals game at RFK that night.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6169-2005Apr20.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/k... A Few Trips Around a Small World- April 23, 2005 Dozens of readers wrote me after my column on coincidences, on how we can be sitting on a beach in Central America or on an airplane over the Atlantic only to find ourselves next to a friend from high school or an old workmate. Sometimes it isn't anyone we know, but someone who knows someone we know.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A32722-2005Apr6.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/k... Old Friends and Familiar Strangers- April 23, 2005 Okay, all of you eager-beaver high school students out there, all of you honor roll types with political aspirations who want to "make a difference" by running for SGA president, consider this: If you are successful, you will never be able to leave high school behind. Ever.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2925-2005Apr19.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/k... Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Game- April 23, 2005 At bat today: more worthy entries from our Washington Nationals poetry contest. Remember that these poems are best when read out loud, ideally while holding a daffodil in one hand and an overpriced ballpark beer in the other.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17341-2005Mar31.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... Meeting the Microscopic Enemy- April 23, 2005 Standing on the roof of Building 512 at Walter Reed's Forest Glen annex, a lab-coated Susan Kosisky casts her eyes over Washington in springtime.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A64461-2005Apr18.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/... Giving a Voice to Reflux- April 23, 2005 Sometime tonight, Ashlee Simpson will take to the stage at DAR Constitution Hall. You may remember her as the teenybopper songstress who outraged the nation after a flubbed performance on "Saturday Night Live" seemed to suggest she was lip-syncing.http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A8254-2005Mar28.html?nav=rss_metro/columns/k... |