This is the story of the Cynic and the Whale. I ask you to put your own cynicism aside and let me know what you think. Okay, I’m no big believer in all those “out there” things, like clairvoyance and soothsaying and all that. I was raised a cynic (by a civil engineer [...]
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Okay I was short the other day, so now you’re gonna pay! Just kidding. Kind of. I hope this story interests you. And when you are done, please share your “hints of greatness” you’ve seen in your child, loved one or yourself before D-world welcomed you aboard. Some D-Moms were asking one another an [...]
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Just a short one today (I bet you’ll thank me for that!) I have been reading the meme a lot of D-Moms and D-Dads are sharing right now on the challenges of that role. It’s heartbreaking and beautiful. I decided to put my twist on it because I do think that while we all [...]
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That’s right: It’s THIRSTY THURSDAY!! That means you can donate to my ride to cure diabetes effort and have a chance to win again today! Thirsty Thursday is a weekly one-day extra fundraiser — all you have to do is donate $10 (or more is a…lways welcome!!) today and you will be entered to win. [...]
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Hi guys Allergy Blogger Jen has posted my guest blog on Diabetes 101 over there. Take a visit HERE. I know there is only one graph on Type 2, and sorry for that. I had to limit my words and chose to focus on what Type 1 is and mention Type 2 and a few [...]
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Okay here it is, BIG NEWS…. And I am so very excited about this. I am hoping to get LOTS of shares on this – and maybe even a few other bloggers out there willing to share the story and interview me so we can make this hit big. This is an incredible opportunity [...]
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How great is that? On Saturday, I posted about an allergy blogger who dissed the Type 1 Diabetes world with an inane comment. On diabetes forums all over, folks were talking about how they’d submitted comments and not had them approved. So I blogged about it, collected the comments and posted it to her [...]
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When you decide to become a writer, be you a newspaper reporter, magazine feature writer, author or, yes, blogger, you are accepting the fact that the world has the right to judge you. No matter what you write about – and particularly when it’s opinion (most blogging really is like the old “op edit” pieces [...]
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It’s Thirsty Thursday and now you have a way of celebrating that AND making a difference — starting this week, I’ll offer a “Thirsty Thursday” prize each week. All you have to do is donate *at least* $10 to my ride to cure diabetes effort today and tonight you’ll be in the running to win! [...]
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It was “parents watch day” at my youngest daughter’s dance school and everyone was excited. Every other dance class week, parents drop their kids off and do errands or wait for the hour in the small waiting room; no peek into what was going on inside. But this was the week before the holiday break [...]
It’s almost here. Nearly a year ago I started thinking to myself … maybe. Just maybe. Six months ago I clicked on the link, signed up and made the first donation myself. JDRF Ride to Cure Diabetes. Death Valley, California. I didn’t own a bike. I’d not been on one (other than those cute [...]
It was driven into my head during the very first days we experienced life with diabetes (or life knowing diabetes was with us now. I still think if I’d been a more astute mom she could have been diagnosed three weeks prior. But I digress). From the first days on the hospital floor, doctors and [...]
#WEGO #HAWMC Prompt: “Miracle Cure.” Not happening here.
First of all, do not accuse me of not having a sense of humor. Anyone who has ever met me knows that’s about all I truly do have (ha ha!) But when I read the prompt for today’s health activist writer’s challenge I’ve been participating in, the hair stood up on the back [...]
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