When I named my blog ‘Menopausal Entrepreneurial Freedom’ I didn’t realize the need for a snappy blog title. Now that I do, I still won’t change the title because it succinctly describes me. It all started with breast cancer. The treatments for the cancer threw me into menopause. The menopause caused me to have drenching…
DetailsIt is happening again, one of my doctors is retiring. This time, it is my eye doctor. I begged to get one of his last appointments before he is gone. I am sure the person taking over his practice will be great but I don’t’ want to start with some one new right…
DetailsEverything is in full bloom. Gardens are being prepared. Flowers are planted. Everything looks so pretty, I love it. I hate it too. Not because of allergies, the logical assumption, but because of hot flashes. As the days get warmer but not everyday, and the evenings are cool but not cold, my body…
DetailsMy friend TJ had a unique encounter that I thought would make a wonderful Mother’s Day post. Here is her story: “I do not know how mother got to Bali. But the discovery produced a smile on my face. Mother finally got to travel. Just the week before I had carefully spread her ashes on my brother’s…
DetailsWith spring and summer comes many occasions to buy gifts or presents. It seems that there are many more birthdays during this time of year. From Weddings, showers, baby gifts, graduations, birthday gifts, get well, retirement, or anniversary occasions, a gift needs to be bought. Gift buying can be a resentful chore or a fun…
DetailsAs I was eating smoked salmon this morning that we smoked from the fall salmon run our neighbor caught I was thinking about my next blog. That’s when the similarities hit me. Fishing and blogging are similar activates. Here are the attributes for both activities: Patience Action Patience Rejection Action Patience Thrills Rewards Blogging requires…
DetailsHere is the scenario: You are preparing some food item and you are out of a needed ingredient. You are home from work and you have changed into comfy clothes. Here is the question: Do you get dressed and head off to the store? Here are the answers from some of my 50+ women…
DetailsTo those who have never experienced a night sweat or a hot flash I thought I would try to convey how they feel in this Q&A. Beware, I think Hot Flashes and Night Sweats have nasty replies. Haralee: A Hot Flash feels to me like a tiny bit of foreboding, maybe a bit of nausea…
DetailsI hated helping with the Passover dishes. Bringing up set after set of dishes from the basement and bringing down the sets we used 51 weeks out of the year was an ordeal! Glassware, pots and pans and of course 2 sets of silverware needed to be lugged upstairs too. After spending almost a year…
DetailsMy husband is part of Team Haralee.Com Sleepwear. He ships out the orders every day. He folds and wraps and inspects the garments before they are put into inventory and he maintains the inventory. He is an integral part of the team that makes our company run smoothly. Three weeks ago he took a fall.…
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