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How a Whale Brain Could Lead to a Treatment Center

A woman in California found a fossilized whale brain around nine years ago. She is hoping to sell it in order to raise money to create a Brucker Biofeedback Center in California. Her niece experienced a brain injury due to a car accident, and received help from that Center in Florida. Nine years ago, a woman named Pepper O’Shaughnessy was exploring a creek near her home. She ended up finding a strange looking object that turned out to be a fossilized whale brain. This is an amazing find, for many reasons. Only two whale brains have ever been found in … Continue reading →

Checkbook Registers and the People Who Hate Them

I have a love-hate relationship with my checkbook register. Okay, let’s be really honest – I have a hate-hate relationship with it. I dislike writing everything down on those tiny little lines, and then not being able to read my own handwriting, and then wondering if that is a 7 or a 1, because if it’s a 7, then it’s a different purchase than the one I made which ended in a 1, and the whole thing won’t reconcile anyway, so what’s the point? In a fit of pique this morning, I said to my husband, “Why do we even … Continue reading →

How Brain Injuries Can Affect Your Money

I was in a car accident back in March and sustained a concussion in the left quadrant of my brain. That’s right … the left side. The side that controls logic, reasoning, ability to do math, and consequently, how you handle money. I’ve always been the bill-payer in our family. I have a handy-dandy chart, I know when everything is due, and on payday, I sit down and pay all the bills. This has been my routine since I got married. Come rain, come shine … the bills are paid on payday. And yet, for some reason, two months ago … Continue reading →

Baby Blog Month in Review: July 2008

Two of my three children are summer babies. That is, they were born in the summer and had their first months surrounded by sunshine streaming in the windows, the sound of birds chirping, and days spent wearing nothing but a diaper and a “onsie.” I made sure that they had Fourth of July outfits ready, even though one of them arrived a week after the holiday. I guess he just wasn’t interested in the parade. Do you have a summer baby, too? We had a lot of new information to share this past month, such as recall notices and new … Continue reading →