SocialBling Blog

I would like to tell everyone  I had a wonderful holiday catching up with family and friends; however Santa brought me a cold for Christmas so I opted out of re-gifting my germs, stayed home and missing all holiday celebrations.  One truly is the loneliest number at the holidays yet while I watched Disney’s Prep [...]

Last week I hosted a high school friend and her husband from Michigan on their first trip to California and Los Angeles. Growing up in the Midwest, I know experiencing LA for the first time is a complete culture shock.  It was good for me to see things new again through their eyes. Here is [...]

I hope everyone had an enjoyable Thanksgiving. What were your favorite conversation topics over your big meal?
Here were the ones that made me think:

Texting – If you are 30 years of age or older, reflect on a high school moment and then try to imagine how that memory would be different with texting in the [...]

On Friday Oprah Winfrey announced she is calling it quits. Next season; season 25 will be the last season of the Oprah Show with the last show scheduled to air in June 2011.
In her announcement she talks about her relationship with her viewers and how some people have literally grown up with Oprah. What does [...]

It was an unbelievable night!  I was hoping to share some video of the event, however the lights were better suited for ambiance than filming.  Instead I will share what I learned and experienced that evening.

Although we may call SocialBling events “networking events”, they are not networking events, they are “connecting” events.  Networking is something [...]

If I was to recap three conversations from last week I would probably be inclined to share the less than pleasant ones I had with the post office, an eBay seller, and a retail store clerk. This blog post could turn into a “gripe-fest” if I did, so I have opted out of recapping those [...]

My friend pointed out to me last week that he was “beginning to hear a theme” in our conversations. I am willing to bet if you asked five other people I speak with the most, they would tell you they hear my theme too. Everybody has a theme, it is the stage of theme that [...]