Bob Beerman News Today

In December, I moved. After 15 years on the edge of downtown, conditions changed in my apartment building, home of the Hernon/Wills Supercollider Observatory (my back porch), annex of Alexandria’s library, refuge of squirrels and stink bugs. After a blessedly short search, my friend the Realtor found for me a modest bungalow in the historic Washington Park neighborhood. It reminded me of poet Patti Smith’s century-old bungalow in Rockaway Beach, N.Y., and though that’s not what c...