Posts from March 2011

I trekked the 2 hours it takes to go from my doorstep to my sister's porch in Vienna, VA using a mix of foot, rail and car last night to spend time with her, Alan and my parents. After our traditional 5pm tea and snacks (the equivalent of the Lindsay "hour of gracious living," sans alcohol), my dad abruptly announced to my mom, "Asha, my soul has broken.

One third of American children are overweight or obese. This is scary.  Michelle Obama and the Let's Move! crew are doing great work, but this is an incredibly daunting social problem to chip away at.

The best week of my life was my honeymoon in Thailand. Buoyed by a cloud of love, we bounced from beach to curry to elephants to noodles (there is a cooking at home tie-in here, I promise).

Perhaps it's because myChef was founded by two female MBAs  (note: ratio of women to men in business school is roughly 30:70, and according to The Journal of American Enterprise Institute, women are 60% less likely than men to go into business for themselves), or perhaps it's because Katie and I both hail from Corporate Social Responsibility backgrounds and wanted to "do good while doing well," (NB, the latter still to be achieved).

Lo and behold, I found myself at another networking event, surrounded by mbas and their chatter of jobs and hobnobs. Slightly beleaguered, I came across a mysterious Italian mba that lives a solitary life at the beach.