Is this the trend among blogs generally? Your Drop in Comments Explained: The Incredible Shrinking Blog. Stirrup Queens.

A Funny Story About My Mom and a 300 square foot studio apartment. Slinderwink on Daily Kos.

The Secret to Every Successful Relationship. Sassy Marmalde. What she has learned in her 33 years.

Heading into the Unknown. Comparing graduation with swimming in the Anacostia. Deborah Yi.

The Mini Cooper as the car of choice in Alexandria. LIT’s Living on Capitol Hill (Hell!?)

The earliest photograph of Glover Park, Red Hill, 1861. Glover Park History.

Former DC blogger now in NC, writes: It has been a heartbreaking week to be a North Carolinian. Dancing through NC.

Also writing on the marriage issue is the Preacher on the Plaza: I see so many of my pastoral colleagues being afraid to say anything at all out of fear of what their congregations might do to them.

How does this happen? Terrifying Experience. Collective Action for Safe Spaces, formerly Holla Back DC.

Dog Owner Seeks Info on Attack Dog in Glover Park. All Life if Local republishes the story of the incident. The account was originally posted on the Glover Park Listserv.

‘Dark Shadows’ Review: Depp Can’t Save Wounded Plot. DC Film Girl.

Guy steals his bike from the thief who stole it. We pass the time of day to forget how time passes.

Pretty pictures of fish at I Flip for Food.

In the words of the old song, what the world needs now is love, sweet love. Fitting then, perhaps, that Hey, Love brings us this little dose of everyday kindness.

The title of this piece could easily be Suburban Sweetheart, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Hamburgers. (Especially that last one…)

Another week, another media controversy about mothering. Stirrup Queens wrestles with this week’s highly inflammatory (and NSFW, in your humble editor’s opinion) Time magazine cover.

Oh, the dangers of suggestion algorithms. Shopping Hungry had one of those rude awakenings when presented with her summer reading list, courtesy of Amazon.

And to take us out this fine spring weekend, a little star-gazing. Or is it moon-gazing? WriteSpell shows y’all what I learned growing up: how beautifully the full moon hangs over the Gulf of Mexico. Hope you all experience something beautiful this Mothers Day weekend!

Observant reporting: A Five Step Guide to Getting a Girl’s Number on Metro. Adventures of a Florida girl in DC is impressed.

From IU to DC shows a little of IU in the post My Brother’s home! From a deployment in Afghanistan.

The short story of a short documentary: ”One Day, They will run the world.” Une francophone à Washington. The blogger’s documentary work on women’s issues.

Affordable to Whom? About the cost of housing in DC. R.U. Seriousing Me?

DC Gentrification Story Goes Global, reports DCentric.

First, The Girl With the Red Stethoscope must deal with the identity theft problem, and then there’s the strange smell in the apartment. That post is called: This Day Just Keeps Getting Better and Better.

Average Blogger writes: Long story short: I had an opportunity, I blogged about it, and that was the end of that.

A Wash of Paint gets past the theft of her iPhone on the Metro and looks at the broader issues and emotions. She writes: You never know how you’ll react in those situations, and I did the best I could. I did fight back, even if I didn’t fight back enough, and at the very least, I didn’t freeze initially.

Sneak Peek: BakeHouse. U Street Girl. A bakery that will open at 14th and T this fall.

DC photos that were used in a marriage proposal. Russell Brammer.

Photo tour of new apartment. Fannetastic Food.

Behind Our Blog Team: Matt Martz. A Q&A with the blogger. Wolf Trap Blog.