Category: brain

  • Teeter Totter Brains

    Teeter Totter Brains

    I have a blog here today at the below link. Debra says: “Today is not only Halloween (Happy Halloween!). It’s the last day of #DisabilityHistoryMonth . Kimberly Gerry-Tucker looks at some creatives and how their brains were wired differently. Fun read!” https://the-art-of-autism.com/9-great-teeter-totter-brains-with-the-brilliance-quirk-balance-disabilityhistorymonth/

  • Unquiet Brain

    Unquiet Brain

    I used to be adept at  “Find the hidden______” puzzles.  In doctors’ offices when I was a kid-I went right to the Highlights For Children magazines to find the hidden toothbrush, pencil, banana, etc. I’ve played a few phone apps too along these lines.  So. With all my ‘experience’ finding hidden items, one would think I…

  • Having A Walmart Brain

    Having A Walmart Brain

    Above: This is an example of a 25 hundred dollar mirror with superb “psyche” tilt. That’s an actual term. Below: a French Budoir mirror (Etsy). And Below: WalMart mirror. Functional simplicity.  There are some grand sounding words associated with mirrors. For instance:  gadrooning (leaves, flowers, birds, etc. carved on the frame),  psyche (the mechanism that…

  • Tinsled Rhetoric

    Tinsled Rhetoric

    Here it comes. Some more neurons from yours truly, firing off like ping pong balls. When I’m not enjoying the promise of Autumn with short walks to visit old paths and stones in walls I had almost forgotten, I have been compiling thoughts like so many layers of onion. Here, I peel them. I share with…

  • FOUR A’s: Appreciated Allies, Art, and Adaptations

    FOUR A’s: Appreciated Allies, Art, and Adaptations

    There I was, with my naturally curly hair all jumped up and soaking went and I had to leave the house. . . I turned to my 8 year old grandson and said, jokingly, “You should pick up that………