7 Cold Weather Stress and Safety Tips from OSHA

I hope everyone enjoyed a joyful Holiday Season and New Year Celebration! Best Wishes for a grand 2014! The New Year in much of the United States has experience frigid temperatures. The below zero weather and snow in the Chicagoland area has closed schools, strangled traffic, and curtailed hours of operation for businesses.  To my…

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It’s Not The End Of The Road!

Yesterday, after the What Color Is Your Brain? Team Building Program for staff at the Community Crisis Center in Elgin, Illinois, Ruth, one of the attendees, handed me a short poem that she felt complemented a poem I had used during the program. I shared my friend Jewel Manzay’s anonymous poem Three Men and adapted…

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I know something good about the Community Crisis Center

I am preparing a Team Building Program for staff at the Community Crisis Center in Elgin, Illinois. I have been working the amazing staff  since 2000. It always is a pleasure and a privilege to share my Brain Color approach with the staff to help improve their understanding of each other and the woman, children,…

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A Poem To Bring You Comfort When Your Beloved Pet Has Died

Recently, Brenda, who is  one of my Facebook Friends, posted that her beloved dog Chloe had died. My Blue Heart understood Brenda’s terrible loss of a four legged, fur-covered family member. When Golde My Dear, our Golden-Newfoundland- Labrador mix, died our veterinarian, Dr. Raymond Hinkle sent me The Rainbow Bridge Poem. It comforted my broken…

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I Am Brain Color Hooker – Who Is Hooked On Crochet!

Senior Citizens are always encouraged to learn something new to keep their brain power and abilities strong and healthy. This past Spring, after my 68th birthday, I told my husband I wanted to learn how to crochet, again. I had crocheted with my maternal grandmother when I was a little girl. However, I never had…

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The Consequences of Mocking and Judging Other’s Behavior

Last night, I was taking a load of laundry out of the dryer. To my dismay, again, the laundry was covered with Kleenex snow flakes. Again, I was overwhelmed with laughter. Yesterday, I needed a Kleenex during my Yoga class and I reached into the pocket of my jacket and was delighted to find a…

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Lucky Vitamin Made Me Smile!

Lucky Vitamin is an online wellness and nutrition store where my husband and I purchase some of our vitamins. It’s not like a brick and mortar where an individual can offer you in-person customer service. However, this month while I was unpacking our order, I was delighted by the surprise I received in the bottom…

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What Do Music, Mothers, and Meows All Have In Common?

Do you listen to music during you daily activities? I do! Listening to Lily Miceli’s remarkable musical radio show InBetween the Music is one of my favorites!! I love listening to Lily’s soothing and welcoming voice that will engage and entertain you with her diverse selection of music, songs, poetry, movies, and literary readings. I…

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Colorful Eating Is Good and Humorous Advice

COLOR IS GOOD Yesterday, I went to the doctor for my yearly physical. My blood pressure was high. My cholesterol was high. I’d gained some weight, and I didn’t feel so hot. My doctor said, “Eating right doesn’t have to be complicated and it would solve your physical problems.” Then the doctor added, “Just think…

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How Would You Feel If You Were Uprooted and Transplanted?

A gardener will tell you that working in the dirt is soothing to the soul. As I wrote in my April 30th blog post, I decided to edit my garden to increase my pleasure and and decrease the stress from the plant eating deer! Today, I finally completed all the editing chores on my Yellow…

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Please Help An Accomplished, Beautiful & Entrepreneurial Veteran!

Last weekend, I had the honor and joy of attending the VWise Conference in Chicago, which was a gathering of amazing military men and women who were part of the Veteran Women Igniting the Spirit of Entrepreneurship (VWISE). This entrepreneurial training program is for female veterans and/or their family members from all service eras and…

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Unhappy Traveler on United Airlines and Amtrak

My Blue Brain is normally not a complainer, but I must write this post to vent my unhappy traveler experience! In March, I booked  a flight on United Airlines to Washington, DC to celebrate my cousin’s 50th surprise birthday party. I enjoyed a lovely weekend with my family and then took the Amtrak Acela Express…

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