In the colder winter weather, many homeowners will pull their houses off the market. Others will hunker down until spring before setting the “For Sale” signs out on their front lawns—all due to the longstanding belief that you can’t sell your house in winter.

You may have heard your grandkids talk about their MySpace page and their friends on Facebook. Social networking websites like these are exploding on the Internet—MySpace was Google’s top gainer in 2005. But they’re not just for kids anymore.

Attendance up 54% from last year

When Marge Wyngaarden established the Elderhostel-affiliated Institute for Learning in Retirement (IRL) at Cedar Crest, she didn’t expect the amount of growth it would garner—a whopping 54% from fall 2006 to spring 2007.