I have two dogs. Jessie and Dusty. At some point while playing with them, they will decide they have had enough and will just sit and look at me. They do as they wish. They are well-trained dogs and, really, are very good dogs. Almost anyone who meets them comments on how wonderful they are […]
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Do You Have an Opinion??????
If you ever want to start a discussion, a very lively discussion; all one needs to do is to enter a popular FB page or a popular blog and start off a comment with your opinion in the following way: “As a lifelong Republican I feel that Obama……” or “As a lifelong Democrat I can tell […]
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Where are the Daddies?
As one looks across the diabetes landscape, it is more than obvious that there is a missing link to the family dynamic in dealing with diabetes. Where are the daddies? Now hold on a second, I’m not saying that dads are missing altogether and I’m not saying that dads do not do a lot. But would […]
As I bought a coffee this week, standing around the coffee island in my local 7-11, a young man (early twenties) walked in with a baseball cap turned to one side. He was pouring his coffee when another man in a delivery uniform entered. Without exaggeration, the conversation resembled this: After a hand shake and a chest […]
Well it is safe to say, by the thousands of people who read and responded to my last article, that we all pretty much have begun a day as I wrote about; in the same manner, at one point or another. It is my hope that the moment is short-lived. As a parent we have many different […]
I hate diabetes. I came out of the shower, shaved, and got dressed. A normal day. As, by habit, I went to the bedroom window and looked out. I do that every morning. We live on a dead-end and there is nothing but wooded area across the street and to the sides of our home. Many […]