Seven weeks after Jessica Scalia gave birth to her son James, the situation was both extremely common and completely dire. Her son was not sleeping, which meant she and her husband weren’t, either.
“I was desperate,” she says. “I was willing to try anything.”
So, at an ungodly hour on one particularly bad night, she made an impulse decision to rent a Snoo — a nearly $1,500 robotic bassinet that automatically soothes fussy babies with motion and white noise. Read More...
RICHMOND — The Virginia General Assembly voted Thursday to roll back cuts to a popular tuition waiver program for military families, resolving a self-inflicted political crisis and putting off a serious budget debate until next year.
Meeting in a special session just to take up this topic, the House of Delegates and state Senate each agreed unanimously to fully restore the Virginia Military Survivors and Dependents Program, which offers free tuition at public institutions of higher learning for the families of veterans injured or killed in the line of duty. Read More...
Pros: Quiet. Clean. Thoughtful touches. Friendly service.
Cons: Bumpy ride. Spotty WiFi.
Vamoose Bus offers an economy version and a business class. In early April, I took the more expensive ($83 one-way) Vamoose Gold Bus to New York from Bethesda, Md. — an affluent Washington suburb — on the recommendation of a colleague. As a D.C. resident, it wasn’t ideal to Uber almost a half-hour north to catch the bus, but for me that was only 10 minutes longer than driving to Union Station, where the other buses depart. Read More...
