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 [...]
Tag Archives: Business as Usual
Ten Things Your Hospital Won’t Tell You
November 5, 2009 – 11:53 am
10 Things Your Hospital Won’t Tell You
By Reshma Kapadia of Smart Money this was shared a few years back via email, from a large Chicago hospital employee – i found it interesting
1. “Oops, wrong kidney.”
In recent years errors in treatment have become a serious problem for hospitals, ranging from operating on the wrong body part to [...]
Plant Lice…Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww
September 22, 2009 – 12:18 am
I recently asked on facebook what the heck these nasty, miniscule you’ve got to be kidding flying dense clouds of insects are in my neighborhood. They came out of nowhere and they really upset me when I am out walking my dog. I have them up my nose, in my ears, totally in my hair [...]
Spring Schming
March 20, 2009 – 2:18 pm
Today is the calendar date that says that it’s the first day of spring. The sun is brightly shining and it may appear to be spring like outside. But it’s COLD.Nature misrepresented herself. Spring equinox schmequinox.March marches on promising something it can’t keep. Behold the moodiness and the madness of March.I will admit that my senses [...]
One Armed Blogette – Part Four
March 8, 2009 – 12:58 pm
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 [...]
Local Contributing Columnist
February 19, 2009 – 10:22 pm
This past summer I was chosen by one of our local newspapers to be a contributing columnist. The editor at the time told me absolutely NO nutrition commentary. TOO healthbeat – ish, NOT what our readership wants to read about she said . So my first column I wrote tips and tricks for feeding picky eaters. Around the holidays [...]
May The Kiss Be With You
February 14, 2009 – 3:34 pm
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 very worst kiss was [...]
One Armed Bloggette – Part Three
February 11, 2009 – 1:17 am
It’s five weeks today since I had my surgery. Yesterday I was given a shorter cast. I still have some healing to do. I saw stars when they removed it. Yikes! Now I can learn to use my elbow again. The skin where the rest of the cast was is really gross. I get to keep this one [...]
Earn Money Sharing Wellness
February 9, 2009 – 8:43 am
My industry or the company I am an independent distributor for has two remarkable paths of opportunity.
Both sell wellness or create healthier lives.
One opportunity path is in the form of physical well being. The other is in the form is fiscal well being.
In our training we are encouraged to row with both oars and always [...]
One Armed Bloggette – Part Two
January 25, 2009 – 9:23 pm
Wednesday – Day 15 See my new handy dandy full arm hard cast.When they took the stitches out, I totally fainted. aka a vasovagal episode … or the complete opposite of an adrenaline rush chemicallyfascinating our body human The tech did a 2 roll cast vs a 4 roll so it would be lighter. I [...]
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