A delicious lunch on a Thursday at the Ritz Carlton in Georgetown is nothing to avoid. That same delicious lunch featuring Carol Joynt’s Q&A Café with former DC Mayor Marion Barry is even better. And that lunch after this week’s book club, which was on Dream City, a book by Harry Jaffe and Tom Sherwood…
Continue reading ➞ Lunch with the Godfather of DC
One of my New Year’s resolutions this year was to read more. As I was taught in business school that goals need to be quantifiable and measurable, I decided that I should read one book per month. And as my Mom taught me that nothing gets the job done more effectively than having to answer…
Continue reading ➞ Book Club: Mortal Friends by Jane Stanton Hitchcock
I was born and grew up in Geneva, Switzerland, and moved to the US for college in 1995. I am very much a blend of my Swiss (European) upbringing and my American experience, ranging from college (Harvard University) to business school (Georgetown McDonough School of Business) to launching a business on this side of the…
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I am back in Georgetown after two weeks abroad, but this morning, in spirit, I am still in Greece, remembering the magical moments spent on Tinos. When I was a little girl, my family and I used to go to Tinos often. My maternal grandfather, a Greek philosophy professor, decided to take a sabbatical there when…
Continue reading ➞ Magical moments in Greece
