For the fifth year in a row, the marathon is happening on Upshur Street NW.

I was at a wedding last year on June 16 when the maid of honor gave a touching toast to the couple, noting the fact they were celebrating their union on the same day as “Bloomsday”, the annual Irish celebration marking the mythical events in James Joyce’s novel Ulysses. The maid of honor artfully worked in Molly Bloom’s famous “yes I said yes I will yes” soliloquy into her speech, as a demonstration of eternal…

Welcome to Opinionist! On Sundays, starting today, DCist will publish opinion pieces about life in D.C. The views expressed below are solely those of the author. Six months ago, I plunked down what meager savings I had and purchased a few hundred square feet of condo in the Brookland area of Northeast Washington. I had been living in a Columbia Heights rowhouse, surrounded in coffeeshops and bars by the newly rich, made wealthy by…