Social Networking 101: Getting Facebook

Facebook?  Facebook!  Facebook …  I’m a Baby Boomer reviewing this astounding social media networking site boasting 400 million members and growing daily. Do you realize the membership of Facebook exceeds the current population of the U.S. by over 30 percent?  Our population was reportedly 307 million last year.  Mark Zu…

Social Networking 101: Getting LinkedIn

I think of LinkedIn as the Mothership when it comes to online networking. LinkedIn (or LI) is the reason I started my own relocation business, Moving Links 4 You, as it put me in touch with millions of people who are potentially selling, buying, moving. It helped me think outside that box we so often find ourselves in!

My work takes me many plac…

Social Online Networking 101

There are hundreds of online social networking sites, so where in the world do you start?

It was by pure accident that I got onto the granddaddy of them all, LinkedIn, in September/October of 2007. A friend said, “Hey, there’s this networking site called LinkedIn I think you should check into.” They said something about…

Journey to Chile: Neighborhoods – Cerro Concepcion in Valparaiso

Cerro Concepcion is old - I’m talking almost 500 years old. It grabbed my senses immediately. We walked along the narrow cobblestone streets speckled with interesting shops, quaint restaurants and art studios. I wondered how the many small homes representing a palate of color clung to the hillsides so well.

It was a very hot day when…

Journey to Chile: The People – Part 2

I had arrived at my destination in ConCon, Chile! Taking in my view overlooking the Pacific Ocean upon arrival, I thought “jaw dropping” would be an apt way of putting it! Hippocampus Vina del Mar would be my home base. Having gotten very little sleep on the flight the night before, I was beat, and the thought of a siesta was too tan…

Journey to Chile: the People, Part 1

When I woke to fog, I questioned whether I would see Chile the next morning as scheduled. This trip started with my commuter flight in Redding, which was to get me to L.A. in time to catch a noon flight to Santiago. Fog isn’t a huge issue in Redding - after all, we’re not coastal - so why now? Arriving at the airport, we saw the airline staff was checking in bags, and I thought, “Cool… we’re ON!” But…

Moving About? Eat an Onion for Health

No matter what we have on our daily schedules (working, parenting, school, moving, traveling), we don’t have time to get sick!  I got an email recently about an onion, and it got me wondering…

Onions have a variety of medicinal effects. Early American settlers used wild onions to treat colds, coughs, and asthma, and to repel in…