I love my city. I love flying into National Airport and looking out the window and seeing the landscape below me of monuments and memorials standing there so strong and immoveable, and unmistakable. I love the view of Washington from the Potomac River, when you're aboard one of the riverboats chugging past Georgetown, the Kennedy Center, the Lincoln Memorial. I love the fact that the people standing behind you in line to tour the U.S. Capitol might be from Phoenix and the people standing in front of you might be from Barcelona, and you are all there to learn about the democratic process, and its history, in America. I love the way the illuminated Capitol dome stands out against the night sky. I like the sounds of different languages being spoken everywhere you go in the city. I love every single production performed at the Folger Shakespeare Library's Elizabethan Theatre. I love the bar at the Jefferson Hotel and the outdoor café at the Jurys Washington Hotel. I love the goings-on at Dupont Circle -- for that matter, I love that there is always something going on at Dupont Circle, sometimes an impromptu bongo performance, sometimes a political demonstration. I love the sight and preponderance of big bulky federal buildings, most of them attractive, like the Treasury Building and the National Archives, some of them not, like the FBI Building. I love the National Park Service rangers, who always give me a quick straight answer every time I ask them something, and I've asked them a lot of questions over the years (sample: what's the distance between the Capitol and the White House?; answer: 3 miles). I love the Bonnard paintings in the Phillips Collection. I love the crab imperial at Johnny's Half Shell, the State of the Union chili at the Red Sage Border Café, and the carrot-apricot fritters with pistachio sauce at Zaytinya. I love to ice skate at the National Gallery Sculpture Garden in winter and listen to live jazz there in summer. I love my city, Washington, D.C. Here are some suggestions of things I love to do, that you might, too.