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You Can Wish Me Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, Happy Kwanzaa, Joyful Winter Solstice, and/or Happy New Year!
Greetings My Blue Brain loves all the greetings I hear, this time of year! Each holiday greetings are meant to wish people Love, Joy, and Peace. This year, we also are wishing people Good Health and Safety because of the Coronavirus. Cheerful Merry Christmas On Monday, I had to call a business to confirm…
Read morePerfect Time to Watch “Light One Candle” – A Poignant Folk Song!
A Grand Discovery While searching for traditional Chanukah songs on YouTube, I found a grand song sung by folk music trio of Peter, Paul and Mary. The song entitled Light One Candle written by Peter Yarrow in 1982. A Song of Humanity While listening to the song and reading the lyric I realized that this…
Read moreJoin an Exciting Global Education Chat for Students, Teachers and Parents – Building and Keeping Virtual Relationships!
GlobalEdSsChat My Orange Brain is excited to be a guest panelist for the GlobalEdSsChat for December 2020. The Topic will be: Building and Keeping Virtual Relationships. My friend and colleague, Leigh Cassel, who is the founder of the Digital Human Library, asked me to share my Brain Color concepts with the students. Chat questions The…
Read moreTaking Time to Reflect – A Happy, Healthy, and Peaceful New Year!
New Year – 5781 Rosh Hashanah begins the Jewish New Year. This year 5781 begins on the Friday at sundown. 10 days later the worldwide Jewish community will observe Kom Kippur, which is the Day of Atonement. These 10 days are considered the High Holidays or Days of Awe and a time to reflect on…
Read moreThe #1 Secret for Writing a Book!
Why write a book I find it fascinating that so many people are eager to know how an author writes a book. They are curious for many reason. Below are just a few: 1. They want to write a book. 2. They are thinking about writing a book. 3. They don’t know how to begin…
Read more2020 Presidential Candidates’ Brain Color Personalities Can Influence Your Vote!
Past Presidential Candidates’ Brain Color Personalities There are only 77 days until November 3rd—Election Day 2020. I have been determining the candidates’ Brain Colors since Presidential Election of 2000. That was the contested (hanging chads) election when Al Gore, a Green Brainer and Joe Lieberman, a Blue Brainer ran against George W. Bush, an Orange…
Read moreIs your attitude: The Glass 1/2 Full, 1/2 Empty, or Something Else?
Full, Empty or Overflowing? People talk about their glass being 1/2 Full or 1/2 Empty. However, my childhood friend Helene describe her glass as filled to the top and with bubbles overflowing the rim of the glass. Helene says, “You must keep your own glass not only full, but overflowing so you have all of…
Read moreHonor your mother by understanding her personality!
Sunday, May 10th is Mother’s Day and what would have been my beloved mothers’ 103rd birthday. On the left is a picture of my mother and I wearing our fashionable Mother-Daughter dresses, which my mother designed and sewed. We are standing in our garden in 1948. My mother was 31 years old and I was…
Read moreDo you think there are Bad Brain Color Personalities?
People often ask me, “Are there Bad Brain Color Personalities?” It happened again, a few weeks ago, when I received an Green Brain curious email through my website from a young man who had taken my Brain Color Quizzes. He wanted to know if it was bad to be any of the Brain Color Personalities…
Read moreBaking my grandmother’s favorite family holiday cookies!
This morning, after yoga class two of my fellow yogis and I were chatting about the holidays. I told them that I always bake my sweet grandmother’s butter cookies with her secret ingredient for Chanukah. I asked if they would like the recipe; they said yes; and I told them I would send them the…
Read moreRemembering! Where were you?
Tomorrow is the 18th anniversary of 9/11. A solemn time to remember the tragedy, the lives lost and devastated, and where we were on the morning of attacks on our country. I vividly remember taking my usual morning walk in my neighborhood, when one of my neighbors ran down her drive way and told me…
Read moreDo Not Teach Tolerance!
We often read articles in newspaper and/or online or hear people say we need to teach tolerance to children and adults. In my What Color Is Your Brain?® workshops and programs I teach attendees not to be tolerance! You might be wondering why. The answer is: my What Color Is Your Brain?® approach encourages acceptance,…
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