How Can You Trim Things Back In Your Life To Be Happier and Healthier?
Trimming Back My Gardens Today, I spent the morning and early afternoon trimming back the dead and browned out flowers from our perennial flower gardens. It was a tedious and time consuming job. However, now I feel a sense of accomplishment that the gardens look well trimmed and pretty again. My Beloved Father’s Garden Shears…
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Discover The Answers To The Question: Why Do I Resist Or Embrace Change?
Enjoying Change This morning, I was looking out my office window and enjoying the changing of colors on our hydrangea bush. The beautiful white blossoms are changing to a shades of pink. How To Create Changes I love that I can purposely change the color of our hydrangea by feeding plant food that that changes…
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Don’t dread your summer vacations and visitors; they can be harmonious, instead of horrific!
Your Vacations Do you think of your vacation as torturous because you are spending time with the horrific cast members of a soap opera? Or is your vacation as beautiful and relaxed as the people and setting on the cover of Good Housekeeping magazine? Either way, your vacation and/or visitors do not have to be…
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FYI: I Want To Share The Technology To Cure My Skin Cancer!
Sharing Information about My Skin Cancer I normally do not share serious personal information. However, I feel it is critical to share information about my skin cancer and the technology to cure the squamous cell carcinoma on my shin. A few weeks ago, I had been working in my gardens and thought I had a…
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My 7th Book… Is It For You?
New Book My Orange Brain is excited to announce that I have signed a contract with my publisher, Slack Books, to write my 7th book! It always is a pleasure working with the SLACK team members. 3rd What Color Is Your Brain?® Book This book is the 3rd in the series of What Color Is…
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Signed Contract for 7th Book!
My Writing “Brainbow” My Orange Brain is excited to share that I have signed a contract with my publisher, SLACK Books, for my 7th book! My Blue Brain is happy that I will be working with Brien Cummings, who is the Senior Acquisitions Editor. My Green Brain is eager to begin my research for the…
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Word Wednesday – “Rictus”
Word Wednesday • “Rictus” is my word for WordWednesday. Definition: • Noun: A gaping grin or grimace, a gape of a bird’s mouth, or the mouth orifice Pronunciation • Pronunciation – RIK-tus Usage • Sometimes their “Rictus” expressed happiness and some times it showed shock. Closing Thought and History I think we all prefer an individual’s smile…
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Is Your Brain “Pot-bound”?
How Does Your Brain Feel? Do you every feel like your brain is bound up and your thoughts are going in circles? I thought about this metaphor, today while I was transplanting 3 of my Christmas Cactus plants that I have had for 20 years. Encircling Your Brain? When I took the plants out of…
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Word Wednesday -“Febrile”
Word Wednesday • “Febrile” is my word for WordWednesday. Definition: • Adjective: marked or caused by fever or feverish Pronunciation • Pronunciation – FEB-ryle Usage • When a child or adult has a “Febrile” feeling, it is a sure sign that they are sick. Closing Thought and History Not too surprisingly, febrile originated in the field of…
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If you have ever felt defeated and wanted to quit, read this…
Feeling Overwhelmed Many people, including me, have felt that heart break that the past 14 months have been filled with: Coronavirus, unemployment, children learning from home, political battling, injustice, and prejudice. Life has been emotionally, financially, and physically challenging, and devastating for so many women, men, and children. Whenever, my Blue Brain and Heart are…
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“Who” Is Living/Working Inside?
“Who” Is Living In Our Tree? My husband and I discovered this large hole, 25 feet up in huge Box Elder tree, in our back yard. We could not see into the hole to know what type of bird, raccoon, squirrel, or owl is living or has been living in the tree. I was excited…
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Word Wednesday – “Doppelgänger”
Word Wednesday • “Doppelgänger” is my word for WordWednesday. Definition: • Noun: A ghostly double of a living person or two people who physically resemble each other very much. Pronunciation • Pronunciation – dop·pel·gäng·er , ˈdä-pəl-ˌgaŋ-ər , -ˌgeŋ-, dä-pəl-ˈgaŋ-, -ˈgeŋ- er, doppelganger Usage • Seeing my “Doppelgänger” on TV in the documentary about the Wizard of Oz, was extraordinary! Closing Thought and History • During the documentary…
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