BLOG: Mental Minute Lists: “Travel Destinations”

In one minute, name as many places as you can that you’d like to go on vacation some day. Bonus Round:   State your dream destinations in alphabetic order. “I’d like to visit Albania, Boulder City, Churchill Downs, Disneyworld … “

BLOG: License Plate Platitudes-A Brain Game

Here’s another brain game to do when on a long road trip.   Look for license plates and then make up a phrase that uses the letters and numbers on it.  (Note:  A ‘platitude’ is a commonplace or trite remark usually uttered as if it were fresh or original.  So say the...

BLOG: EEEeee’s On Down the Road Brain Game

Here’s a brain game to wile away the time while on a road trip.  You and your family can even have fun doing it while walking in a mall or waiting in line at the supermarket.   Look for a sign, logo or license plate with an “E” (or some other letter) on it and see how...

BLOG: Mental Minute Lists: “HOT Synonyms”

  “Hot” sure is the word we use here in Vegas … a lot.  So let’s use some other words. 1.  In one minute, name as many synonyms as you can for HOT. 2.  Work your memory by repeating the list in the same order. 3.  Another time find...

BLOG: Card Games to Fight Friggatriskaidekaphobia

              Today  (… and Happy Friday the 13th to us all!) I was thinking how when my kids were young I used playing cards to help them practice their number skills.   Several games revolved around the number “13” and even today...

BLOG: My “Mall Walk, Talk ‘n Gawk” Talk

This morning I spoke at the “Sunstrider’s” meeting which the Galleria Mall sponsors monthly for mall walkers.  I had highlighted them in my July  “A Thinkin’ Minute” column in the Vegas Voice (www.TheVegasVoice.net)   These folks said they walked...