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How well do you make decisions? In part, the answer to that question lies in another question: What kind of decisions are we talking about? No matter what the decision, to some extent, most are made based on what we’ve learned from others.  Your last car purchasing decision was likely swayed by things you read or heard about the car under consideration. Your apartment decision probably had at least a little to do with something someone said about it that appealed to you.

Making good decisions depends on being a good listener and then filtering the information appropriately. It takes practice! Are you a Human Decision Making Machine?

Is it wrong that I have more fun looking at the AWFUL dresses celebs are wearing on the red carpet than I do the stunning dresses that make the mouth drop open?

I’m purely entertained by the dreadful, monstrous, totally ugly dresses that find their way to awards ceremonies every year. I enjoy it so much, in fact, I go out of my way the next day to check out the really terribly ones online. This Oscar photo montage captures the essence of the best of the worst!

How about you? Do you enjoy the train wrecks as much as I do?

The Lens of Impressionism Exhibit at the Dallas Museum of Art will be on display through May 23rd. Among the artists represented are Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, and Gustave Courbet, and the exhibition will also include photographs of Gustav Le Gray, Henri Le Seq, and Louis-Alphonse Davanne.

According to ArtSlant, “The exhibition will include approximately 90 works, including photographs, paintings, drawings and prints. Forty photographs, most of them vintage prints, and thirty-eight paintings, pastels and watercolors will be shown, along with a selection of prints, maps and ephemera evoking the new touristic culture of the Normandy coast.”

 

For more information:

EMAIL: jheimberg@DallasMuseumofArt.org
PHONE: 214-922-1200
OPEN HOURS: Tuesday and Wednesday: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m. Thursday: 11:00 a.m.–9:00 p.m. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday: 11:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

How well do you know your disaster facts? Do you know a Force 5 from a Cat 5? Saffir-Simpson from a Homer Simpson? Which produces the fastest winds: Hurricane or tornado?

Take this quiz to see if you are the master of disaster! Disaster Quiz

With spring fast approaching, so is the odd and sometimes violent weather that comes with it. Blowing in the wind are some pretty interesting myths about the weather like this one: Lightning never strikes the same place twice. Is that a fact or myth?

To find out the answer to this and other interesting weather questions, take this QUIZ and try to beat my score! I only missed one!

The thing about plastic is that it’s here to stay. The plastic soda bottle or the endless pile of milk jugs we’ve used will outlast the house we live in! And those plastic grocery bags! Oh boy! They are everywhere and have no future other than an eternity in a landfill! Or do they?

People are getting pretty creative in the effort to recycle and re-use these days. And it’s a good thing. For us to cut back on our purchase of plastics is a great start and to find ways to re-purpose those purchases is the next best thing to not buying them in the first place.

This article, Fun With Plastic gives some great ideas for using the stuff we’ve been accustomed to throwing away. How about that lamp? Very creative and cool looking, eh! You can make one, too! Check it out!

When you look at your calendar, what’s missing? If you’re like me, you don’t schedule time with family, time alone, time with a good book, etc. In fact, the stuff in MY calendar is just work, work and more work. Meetings , meetings and more meetings. But what would happen if I did dare to schedule my personal, pleasurable and wonderful life stuff in my calendar and then WHAT IF I actually followed it! I would read more, hang out more with my kids, watch more movies … it’d be great!

This article in Reader’s Digest suggests that you do schedule pleasures in your calendar! And there’s more helpful and practical tips, too! Check it out!

 

A little humor for your Hump Day from Reader’s Digest

Join other late night museum goers to celebrate the closing of All the World’s a Stage. While you’re there, become a member of the Dallas Museum of Art for a sneak peek of the new exhibition The Lens of Impressionism. Be transported to Europe and the time of the impressionists with concerts, tours, a lecture on Monet’s Seine at Lavacourt , and family experiences. Enjoy contemporary ballet performances, open mic, and DJs in the galleries.

The museum’s Full Schedule of Events gives dates and time for all the awesome upcoming events.

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