Shonali Burke

About Shonali Burke

Founder and publisher of Waxing UnLyrical, Shonali Burke helps purpose-driven brands bring big ideas to life. She teaches at The Johns Hopkins University, has gone back to school herself with the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and is creator/lead instructor at The Social PR Virtuoso® online training hub , where ambitious PR pros learn how to unleash their inner Social PR superheroes. Owned by Lola the Basset Hound, she's mad about ABBA, bacon, cooking, dogs, and Elvis, though not necessarily in that order. Wouldn't you like to be in her kitchen?

15 Jan 2010

Of Sugar And Spice And Everything Nice

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It’s my birthday, and I’m taking the day off, but I needed to say this to you, so here goes:

Remember the nursery rhyme? “Of sugar and spice, and everything nice, that’s what little girls are made of.” Little boys seemed to get the shaft on that one (I mean, who wants to be made of snips and snails and puppy dogs’ tails?).

That popped into my head this morning as I was looking at the incredible kindness and warmth flowing towards me today, my 40th birthday. Actually, the flow started a few days ago, […]

By Shonali Burke|Jan 15, 2010|Categories: Personal|Tags: birthday, facebook, iabc, iabc washington, jakub konysz, kids with cameras, relationships, shashi bellamkonda, Social Media|8 Comments

12 Jan 2010

Year Two, Here We Come

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As I mentioned yesterday, this blog turned a year old on January 10. Another milestone for me in a year of milestones (another one’s coming up on January 15, in case you missed my post from yesterday).

It’s been quite a ride, which is why I decided to use this wonderful photograph from West Zest’s Flickrstream (CC-licensed, of course) as a visual accompaniment to this post.

Because I felt quite childlike when I started my journey through the blogosphere; wonder that you cared what I thought, glee when it made you […]

By Shonali Burke|Jan 12, 2010|Categories: Personal|Tags: blogging, jeff crites, joe perez, kami huyse, lisa hoffmann, robin lane, shashi bellamkonda|8 Comments

11 Jan 2010

Time Flies When You’re Having Fun

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Yesterday this blog turned a year old. I’ve actually been doing this – sometimes not at all consistently, but I’ve hung in there – for a year.

Wow!

I do want to share some thoughts on what I’ve been through as a new blogger, as well as call out some people without whom it wouldn’t have been possible, but right now, I’m going to share another milestone.

In four days, I’ll turn 40.

Yup, I thought I’d get a bigger reaction out of you with that one. Time flies when you’re having fun.

I don’t know if […]

By Shonali Burke|Jan 11, 2010|Categories: Personal|Tags: alissa friedman, beth kanter, calcutta, geoff livingston, kids with cameras, kolkata, Personal|12 Comments

08 Jan 2010

This Spaghetti Ain’t Squashed

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Winter’s been quite severe so far, what with our area’s first blizzard of the 21st century and foot-upon-foot of snow and ice.

Brr. It was fun when the snow first came down but after that, not so much.

Weather like that makes one yearn for steamy food, doesn’t it? So this holiday season, I cooked what is fast becoming a Burke family “heirloom-in-waiting”; a marinara sauce my brother-in-law learned of from a friend, and that I’ve been experimenting with as well. It’s delish.

Unfortunately you’re not getting that recipe from me […]

By Shonali Burke|Jan 8, 2010|Categories: Public Relations|Tags: Cooking, marinara, martha rose shulman, pasta sauce, Recipe of the Week, spaghetti squash|3 Comments

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