Meet Karin Tanabe – she’s a former POLITICO reporter turned fiction writer whose books reel you into another place and time you thought only existed in history books and movies. Karin just released her fourth novel, The Diplomat’s Daughter, about three young people forced on a journey in the face …

We just discovered a fantastic new website, and it’s fast becoming one of our favorites.  It’s called Naked Thanks and is run by Karin Tanabe and Stacey Pfarr, both veterans at Washington Life. The mission of the site: Two American girls from the "me" generation, write 365 bare-boned tell-all thank …