President Lincoln’s Cottage

Our neighbors asked us to watch their house, while they spend a week in Michigan at a summer cottage. Their request caused me to reminisce about escaping the scorching summer heat (before air conditioning) at my maternal grandparents’ summer the cottage in Union Pier, Michigan, when I was a child. Annually, families make their summer migrations to cottages…

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Happiness & The Blue Brain Personality Type Workshop

“Collaborative” is a accurate adjective for the Blue Brainers!  To celebrate the second week of Happiness Happens Month, I want to tell you about the What Color Is Your Brain? Workshop I presented to members of Northwest Suburban Practice Group of the Collaborative Law Institute of Illinois, last Thursday, August 7th. Notice the “Blue Brain” adjective of the “Collaborative” Law Institute.  …

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The Best Moment of My Life

The Best Moment of My Life is the first of my “Comfort Companion Stories.”Our Glazov family love affair with flying small aircraft began when my husband, Jordan, took flying lessons in a piper cub airplane, while he was attending Northwestern University Law School; and I was studying at Ohio State University to become a teacher. Jordan…

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Happiness & The Yellow Brain Personality Type

August is Happiness Happens Month!To kick off this month’s celebrations of Brain Color Happiness, I’d like to share one of my favorite, Mac-Do Lodge Summer Camp, poems with you, which was written by Pricsilla Leonard.HAPPINESSHappiness is like a crystal, Fair and exquisite and clear, Broken in a millions pieces, Shatter, scattered far and near. Now and then…

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Diabetes Comfort Companion Stories

I am passionate about encouraging, educating and offering comfort to families who deal the never-ending challenges of diabetes management! In 2002, while I was attending the Iowa Summer Writing Festival at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa, I began writing Purr-fect Pals: A Kid, A Cat and Diabetes.  Purr-fect Pals is a picture book for children with…

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Tops Cats Charity Motorcycle Ride

Raise the Banner and Shout Hurrah for the Top Cats! Last Sunday, July 27th, my husband, Jordan, and I participated in our motorcycle club’s 12th annual Top Cats Charity Ride. 160 riders and passengers attended the ride and the club raised approximately $7,000 for Northern Illinois Special Recreation Association (NISRA).  The ride began and ending at the…

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Orange Brainers Vacation and Reunions with Family and Friends

The last Brain Color Clue entry for this month is definitely not the least. It is all about having a grand time with the “Orange Brainers” who love to have fun, be spontaneity and experience variety on their vacationsor at family reunions.  Orange Brainers find unfamiliar or exotic places and meeting new people exciting. Sporting trips such as helicopter skiing, crewing on a sailboat, whitewater rafting, or…

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Colorful Garden Photography

This morning, I attended an engaging and educational garden photography class at my favorite garden store, Hawthorn Gardens, in Hawthorn Woods, Illinois. The class was offered by photographer Lou Nettelhorst, owner of CloseupPhotographs, Inc. Lou also offers classes at College of Lake County, located in Grayslake, Illinois and in Sister Bay,Wisconsin (Door County) in the spring and fall.  The…

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Harmonious Brain Color Communications

Did you know that your Brain Color tone can throw people off guard? I was speaking with a business associate about my What Color Is Your Brain? book in my customary “Lovely Blue Brain” tone of voice. He then asked me a question which I answered in my “Logical Green Brain” tone. He immediate questioned, “Do I note…

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Your Green Brain on Vacation

I am fascinated by Greta Garbo’s “Green Brain” contemplative pose. Is she thinking… “I’m so misunderstood!”“I never said, ‘I want to be alone.’ I only said, ‘I want to be left alone.’ There is all the difference.”For most “Green Brainers” there is no difference in her quote, because the optimum word is “ALONE.” My interpretation: Greta could have been thinking… “How can…

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The Education for Children with Diabetes Foundation

“EMPOWERMENT THROUGH EDUCATION…LIFE WITHOUT DIABETES!  Wouldn’t that be wonderful?  Until that day is upon us, we need to give our children and families the tools they need to manage their diabetes.  We, at the Education for Children with Diabetes Foundation, believe the best way for that to happen is through education.”What you have just read is…

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A Marathon Run for Lung Cancer and Scholoarships for Children With Type 1 Diabetes

Hurrah for Serendipity! Last week I received an email from Mary Podjasek, the President of the Education for Children with Diabetes Foundation Mary’s friend, Carole Ewert was reading  Christy Suerth’s LUNGevity website. Christy is committed to training and running on with a  LUNGevity team in her FIRST Chicago Marathon on October 12, 2008. She is running to find a cure for…

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