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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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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A Memorable Birthday Celebration!

Last Saturday, our eldest son, Joshua, celebrated his 38th birthday. Joshua also shares his birthday with his cousins, Steven Elrod , and  Michelle Glazov Vogel, and with Bill Will the owner Camp Shewahmegon, in Drummond, Wisconsin, which Joshua and Noah attended for many summers as campers and counselors. Joshua was born July 12, 1970 at 1:50am, which was opening morning of…

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A Blue Brain Honeycomb Heart

As Blue Brainer, when I think about my relationships with family members and friends, I visualize my heart as a honeycomb, with a compartment for each individual. However, at times, it has felt like the cast members from The Guiding Light, the longest running soap opera, have filled those compartments instead of cover models of Family…

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DASH TO CURE DIABETES

In 1985, when our eldest son, Joshua, was diagnosed with Type I diabetes were told, “There will be a cure in the next five years.” At that time Joshua was 15 years old and on Saturday, July 12th, we will celebrate his 38th birthday. For almost 23 years we have been wanting and working towards a cure…

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A Red, White and Blue Brain 4th of July Celebration

This morning, Jordan and I drove our 1962 White Ford Falcon  (a replica of the car he picked me up in on our first date) over to our Tower Lakes Village 4th of July parade and festivities. We did not find the “Hordes of Humanity” riding on professionally created floats and zinging candy at bystanders. Joyfully, we…

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