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Santa Will Send Your Child a Personal Letter……..You’ll Help Find a Cure.

If if you do not have children for this incredible program…..it’s the holidays, help take us one step closer to a cure.   SANTA CLAUS CAN PEN A PERSONAL NOTE TO YOUR CHILD THIS CHRISTMAS Jolly holiday fundraiser benefits Diabetes Research Institute Foundation New York, NY (November 23, 2012) – Yes, Virginia (and Emma, and Maria, […]

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PLEASE REPLY AND LET THESE SPECIAL PEOPLE KNOW HOW MUCH WE APPRECIATE THEIR EFFORTS!

They are doing it for your kids, for mine, for theirs.  They are doing it for a cure; they are doing it in memory.  They are doing it with incredible fortitude.  They are doing it with painful memories.  They are doing it with incredible hope.  They are pushing their bodies to the absolute physical limit. […]

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PORKED!–Pig Insulin, Pig Islets, Pigskin, & a Pig Roast—A VERY PIGGY DAY!

Michael Otten (far right) with Vinny, Robert (and Gigi) were up bright and early organizing their PIG ROAST 2012 to benefit the Diabetes Research Institute and the Children with Diabetes Foundation. After I spoke with him this morning I had this thought of the irony of an event to end diabetes and the connections. Many of […]

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T.G.I.F. (Thanking Great Individuals Forever)

His efforts are tireless and his reputation well-known not only to his worldwide colleagues but many PWDs and to parents who wait for a cure.  He works in the lab, lectures worldwide and yet, still finds the time to speak to those with a full heart investment interest in finding a cure for diabetes.  Here he […]

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Passionate People, We.

  5:30 am: I am on a shuttle on the way to Newark Airport.  Other businesspeople are on the shuttle bus as well; six of them together, me by myself.  They talked little of what their job was but I gathered they were regional managers of some sort of retail store.  I could tell you […]