Sandie Angulo Chen

Sandie Angulo Chen is a professional entertainment and lifestyle writer and has contributed as a movie critic, columnist, or feature writer to Common Sense Media, the Washington Post, Variety, Entertainment Weekly, and the Huffington Post. She runs a Washington D.C.-area blog TheDCMoms.com as well as a young adult book blog, TeenLitRocks.com. You can follow her on Twitter @urbanmama or @teenlitrocks.

Family-Friendly Historic Charlottesville, VA

Only 70 miles away from Richmond and 120 miles from Washington D.C., Charlottesville is perfectly located for a mid-Atlantic family to get away for an entertaining and educational visit to one of the country’s most historic cities.