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A huge BRAVA goes out to my friend and author Sheila Glazov who’s book ” What Color Is Your Brain?” is now being sold in Brazil in Portuguese! Sheila fills my “blue” heart. She champions me at many many levels and affectionately has nicknamed me “caringgrace” a play on words with my name. She says I [...]

On Tuesday it will be nine weeks since my surgery. I can’t believe it.The cast above – my third – which I’ve had for a month – comes off on Monday.I am very happy to say that my elbow rehabilitation has gone splendidly.See how straight it is now? Without any pain! The ability to wiggle my fingers [...]

I wrote this as my contributing columnist piece in this week’s local paper Title: May The Kiss Be With You By Karen Hanrahan I personally think that the kiss is the ultimate expression of love. Even to this day a kiss can make my heart completely flutter. Have you ever had a special kissing moment? My [...]

Many of you have been asking why I have had this surgery.  I thought I’d explain.  Thanks ever so much for your wondering.Two  years ago I was rear ended. It was dusk, raining, the accident was incredibly low impact, yet impactful enough to lurch me forward.My glasses flew off my head, the side of my [...]

Well at least half of it is!!  I will pay 50 % Shipping on all orders placed on December 30th ONLY You can check out my wellness products website here Thank you for your business!! I so appreciate you!karen hanrahan | wellness educator and consultant | writer nutrition ~ green clean ~ inch loss  ~ anti-agingContact me:  [...]

I was taken with a headline yesterday that used the word unemploymentality.   The press really pushes the negativity down our throats doesn’t it?I personally ignore the bad press. I feel it fuels a really negative attitudeSortof amazing what happens when you shut that stuff off. Instead how we frame itfind the good in itreach out to others [...]

This was a post from last Thanksgiving with a few updates…the truth is much of the gratitude I am brimming with today is the same …‘Tis the time of year to count our blessings. For me there are always many, yet this last year ( OK and the year before too!! ) there were blessings above and beyond blessings.My friends [...]

I work from home. Today is a writing day, I am happily typing away and I get this email: FedEx Shipment XXXXXXXX27 DeliveredThis email was sent from an unattended mailbox. Our records indicate that the following shipment has been delivered:This report was generated at approximately 12:59 PM CDTon 08/27/2008.I am sitting in my house and [...]

Ever feel completely overwhelmed? I am at that place today. I feel like the last 2 weeks have been this blur of circumstances that just won’t let up. One thing after another; great things, bothersome things, big thingsFamily – it’s the end of the school year and it’s recital heaven, it’s also lots of evenings away [...]

Yesterday I got an MRI. Between that and SOBCon08, I feel like I am in this warped time zone where I am moving at one speed and the rest of the world is at anotherI am so behind.In December of 06 I was rear ended.  It was a low impact accident in that nothing happened to my [...]

Just got back from a two day reprieve helping a dear friend, by keeping her company on a long drive to LaCrosse, Wisconsin.In the world of,if I had a 9-5 job, I’d never be able to pick up and just hang with friend, and in the world of trusting my teenage daughter - I just left [...]

Today was my transition day.  Transition from wheeeeeeeeeeee it’s the holiday’s to holy toledo it’s January 7th tomorrow and boy do I have alot to do.To digress for just a global warming minute…it’s chicago, it’s january and its sixty degrees out – birds are chirping, mud is everywhere –  it’s darn creepy. I actually felt [...]

My mom was a neat freak. If there was paperwork to manage with regard to the running of our home I never was aware of it. One plain white note pad sat on the antique kitchen desk ( my fathers desk when he was a boy) with an occasional neat scrawl on it. I never saw [...]

sometimes a picture just says it all marble flickr image credit K a r e n     H a n r a h a n Wellness Educator/Nutritional Consultant Mentoring YOU to Health Success 708.482.0678 Websites: Nutrition Weight Loss Member of BNI – West Suburban BNI: “Chapter Mentor” Member of West Suburban Women Entrepreneurs www.wswe.org WSWE Board Member and [...]

I don’t know about you, but growing up in my family we ALWAYS had to make our bed. I can not remember a single day, ever – in my childhood when the beds were not made. When visiting my grandmother we had  the fear of you know who attached to making the bed. It had to meet [...]

A year ago I had the honor of escorting Liz Ryan from the airport to her hotel.  WSWE ( West Suburban Woman Entrepreneurs) was having it’s annual event and she was our speaker. My role for WSWE is the programming director. I was the one who encouraged the event committee to secure Liz as our speaker, as well as the person [...]

I tried today to offer assistance in the area of Lymes Disease and Nutrition to a woman’s group I belong to online. The moderator was totally not accepting my stuffTo bypass all my mistakes go to version four. To read all my gobbly gook continue here…. When I first joined this group I tried way too hard.  My jargon was salesy. [...]

I see networking as collecting and connecting the dots – the wonderful people I meet, befriend and learn more about are the dots. Connecting them is partly a willingness to say outloud – hey I know someone who could provide that service or product.  Having established myself as a credible resource has someone consider my suggestions. [...]

I wanted to comment on being torn between motherhood and livelihood. When I divorced the first time I was living on a dime. My son was 9 and my daughter was 5, I had been a stay at home mom for 10 years. I had to get interim work to pay for my very expensive [...]

It’s all very nice to take a vacation, business trip or some time off. When your gone it’s as if your REAL life doesn’t exist. You can focus generously on doing absolutely nothing if that’s what your doing while your away.  OR for me because I went to my annual national convention I can focus on my [...]

I pride myself in being mindful of the perfect day, the perfect work day ( according to me anyway) I strive at getting to all that needs to be taken care of re: running a home single handedly – figuratively and literally. At times I have been very on purpose about these things. When it works and when [...]

One really cool thing that bloggers do for each other is to support each other’s writing (blogfully speaking) and each other’s message.   We also try to foster good will and sharing among each other. It’s like the blogosphere is one big happy family.With that said I have been reading and enjoying a blog called Feel Good Health Now [...]

This is a new category on my blog.  Being a stay at home, single mom entrepreneur, I find I bring a certain perspective to things.Business antics and musings in particularThis morning I had to go to an appointment in rush hour traffic. I can count on one hand how often I drive out of my comfortable community [...]