I’m so excited to share this with you. This is not a meeting on wearing masks or not wearing masks; it is not about whether you should home school your child or not; it is about knowing that different states, as well as school districts, have different protocols. It’s about working within the guidelines of […]
Author: tomkarlya
So hard to fathom that eleven years has gone by that our sweet Lisa left this world. But she went out with a voice shouting from the mountaintops and it’s in the memory of that voice that I keep the promise I gave to my Little Brother (honorary), Mark, that in honor of his wife […]
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From “A” DiabetesDad
As you read in the title, I am a DiabetesDad. Never said I was ‘the’ diabetesdad, we are many. Today is Father’s Day. Happy Father’s Day to all of you who are fortunate enough to have someone in your life who calls you dad. In our children’s lives, we are ‘the’ dad. Unless you are […]
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New Heroes Emerge Everyday
I don’t know if hero is a word Mike Otten likes, or is even comfortable to be called. Perhaps in-line with his business at Sequa Deli and Caterers of Patchogue, hero means what it should, a great sandwich and surely Mike’s store is one of the best at that. Perhaps Mike is just a really […]
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Is Anyone There?
It’s called a Ghost Light or a Stage Manger’s Light. Traditionally, the first one to arrive at the theatre is the Stage Manager. The fully dark theatre has this one light on, it is a safety mechanism so the arriving stage manager is not walking around in a fully dark theatre. In the pitch black […]
I cannot tell you how many times I sat down to write this month. But any time I started, it just felt silly to try to write anything that was not COVID-19 related. But there were a zillion diabetes peeps all sharing information and if I cannot give a new perspective on something I feel […]