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March 30, 2015

Law and Disorder

There has been so much going on, stuff that I haven’t wanted to blog about, which is why you haven’t heard from me. But it’s probably time for an update. After a lot of back-and-forths, meetings, calls, and consultations with…

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March 18, 2015

Will My Baby Go to College?

Our nanny is a Michigan alum and is already indoctrinating Franco in the Wolverine way. It makes my heart swell to look at these pictures because Michigan is a great school. I’d be so proud if Franco went to Michigan…

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March 10, 2015

LuminAID

I tweeted about this recently, but want to dedicate a post to this product as it deserves all the exposure it’s getting. I heard about LuminAID through my grad school because one of the co-founders, Andrea Sreshta, is currently getting…

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March 6, 2015

Greetings from Sunny California

I’ve got a backlog of photos that I need to share. Given that the rest of the country is in bad shape, weather-wise, I thought to post some sunny pictures of our Golden State. It’s 74 degrees in San Francisco today,…

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February 27, 2015

Recap: 2015 Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women

I am bursting with information to share from the inaugural, sold-out 2015 Lead On Watermark Silicon Valley Conference for Women. It was hands-down the best conference I have ever attended. All the speakers, panelists, and moderators were incredible, not to mention…

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February 14, 2015

Happy Single Awareness Day

Six years ago, Dean and I met on Friday February 13 at Amelie wine bar in San Francisco, then went out to dinner for Valentine’s the following day, and were engaged within months. We’ve now been married for almost 5…

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February 9, 2015

Lead On Watermark’s Silicon Valley Conference for Women

A few weeks ago, I wrote that my word of the year is Rejection. To remind me, I purchased a customized ring on Etsy yesterday. The jeweler had all these samples of her work, engraved with words like Love, Peace,…

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January 29, 2015

How to Land an Apartment in San Francisco

In the dog-eat-dog world of San Francisco, it’s not about finding an apartment (if you can afford the rent), but whether you can convince the landlord to pick you out of a stack of rental applications that read like Silicon…

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January 25, 2015

REJECTION!

There’s too much going on in my life right now to come up with resolutions. Besides it’s already the end of January! I’m barely keeping afloat, but there’s a philosophy for living my life that I’ve latched onto recently, so…

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January 21, 2015

Pictures from the Petting Zoo

Dean and I love all things animals. We adore the show Meerkat Manor and in fact, have a meerkat at home. She’s fake, of course. One of our favorite trips was to Roatan where we got to hang out with…

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