This Thanksgiving I was fortunate enough to have the chance to spend time with friends and family. In addition, I volunteered for Hush Society Magazine helping them provide 100 families with Thanksgiving meals. This was their first Annual Thanksgiving Dinner Drive, and based on the success of the event, it will occur for many years [...]

 
Cynthia de Lorenzi and Bizzy Bee, Sanam Toossi
Founded in 2004, Success in the City is known for its unique, fun and unconventional business networking events. They have grown to become the smart, upbeat professional women’s answer to the “good old boys” network. They operate on the premise that “trust and humor are key elements for [...]

Miss A’s Bizzy Bee, Sanam Toossi with Hilary Fordwich, Lindsay Simmons, Andrea Tecce
Pearls, Blackberries, and delightful conversation was all the rage at the Women’s Leadership & Mentoring Alliance (WLMA) “Relationships and Rainmaking” event. This well attended event was held at the Offices of Dickstein Shapiro LLP downtown. As soon as I entered the event, members of [...]

The Dandelion Patch in Reston Town Center
 

Sugar and spice and many things nice was my experience at Girls Night Out held at the Dandelion Patch in Reston Town Center on July 23, 2009.  Even with the torrential rain, I was determined to find my way to this event.   Owner of The Dandelion Patch, Heidi Kallett [...]

 
Beauty and brains was the atmosphere buzzing at the Polichicks Cocktail Caucus event. This event was held at Saks Fifth Avenue in Tyson’s Corner. Forget old school stuffy political events, this was a political soiree with some elements of a Candace Bushnell novel mixed in. Polichicks’s tag line is “The It Girls Guide to Politics [...]

Sanam Toosi, and Sam Bennett, President of Women’s Campaign Forum
Politics anyone? Living in DC provides locals the chance to experience all kinds of events, but political events are definitely the most prolific and popular here in the Nation’s Capital. I had the privilege of attending a night of networking sponsored by the Women’s Campaign Forum [...]

It was lights, camera, and action for the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) on Tuesday May 26, 2009 here in DC. There was a private screening of “Terminator Salvation”. This event was not a typical screening where one has to wait in line for hours just to fumble through the crowd in order to [...]