My Secrets To Discover Buried Treasures In Your Office!

Yellow Brain Clean Up Plan Today, I am continuing my Yellow Brain Clean Up My Office Plan to clean out the large file drawers in my office. I began last Friday, worked through last weekend, and continuing this week. My Goal My goal is to complete this project and then begin writing my new book,…

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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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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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“Kindness Is A Lifestyle”

A Helpful Quote This morning, I received a “Daily Does” email from Joe Fermano. The message read; “Kindness is not an act.  It’s a lifestyle.” The quote  is from Anthony Douglass. Princess Shayna’s Invisible Visible Gift This quote immediately made me think of my children’s book Princess Shayna’s Invisible Visible Gift. My family fairy tale is…

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“A Woman of Valor” to Celebrate International Women’s Day

Honoring Women Yesterday was International Women’s Day. A day to establish a gender equal world; celebrate women’s achievement; raise awareness against bias, and take action for equality. It was a day to honor the women in our lives, our communities, countries, and around the world! A Woman of Valor I have always love the Proverbs…

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Clues to Solve An Environmental Mystery

Change in the Weather Last Thursday, I posted a message on my all social media sites abut the temperature going up to 25 degrees, in Chicago, snow was falling, the sun was shining, and the robins were swarming all over our snow covered trees. The sparrows were also flying around our home and resting on…

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Creativity and a treasured baby buggy!

Creative Planter You can use your “Blue Brain Creativity” to adapt and utilized a family treasure! This is the 50-year-old Italian pram that I used to walk our sons Joshua and Noah in, when they were babies. Now it holds a variety of Coleus and sweet memories each summer, on our front porch. Closing thought…

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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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Imagination Preview in Color

Albert Einstein (a Green Brainer) said, “Your imagination is your preview of life’s coming attractions.” According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, IMAGINATION has a variety of definitions. I have highlighted specific words that are key to each of the 4 Brain Colors. 1. The power of forming a mental image of something not present to the senses…

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Incognito and New Writing Projects

My Blue/Yellow Brain needed to apologize for being incognito for the past several weeks. January was filled traveling and developing, preparing and delivering five What Color Is Your Brain? Programs for legal secretaries, lawyers, parents, early childhood teachers and administrators and sales representative for a book distributor. Now, I have decided to commit the month of February to writing the Teacher & Parent Activity…

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Statistics for Parents, Children & their Brain Color Personalities

This afternoon, I will be facilitating a What Color Is Your Brain? “Parenting” Program at the Gertrude B. Neilson Child Care and Learning Center. I have previously facilitated a Brain Color program for the Team Leaders and another for all the Teachers and Staff members. Executive director, Lana Weiner told me, “Our teachers haven’t stopped talking about brain color and are…

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