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Door Slammed in your Child’s Face, Only Because There is Not Enough!

Twenty Six Hundred kids.  I’ll say it again—-twenty six hundred kids.  Do you know what that represents?  That represents the amount of kids who applied for a college scholarship last year from the Diabetes Scholars Foundation, according to Mary Podjasek, President and Executive Director. That means twenty-six hundred kids graduated high school last year who had […]

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Do You Know Someone Who Sounds Like a Diabetes Broken Record?…..Is It YOU?

I have found it a tad scary to think that there is an entire generation of people who have no idea of the meaning, ‘You sound like a broken record.”  I mean how would they know?  Records are achievements broken in sports, at the box office, and in other places where milestones are measured.  They […]

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Diabetes. The World We Live In. There REALLY is No Cure for Stupid!!!

“An intelligent hell would be better than a stupid paradise.” —-Victor Hugo Well ain’t that the truth?  It is about time we come to realize that no matter how hard we try, if you are not part of this ‘new normal’ called diabetes, you just will never ‘get it’.  We have all heard the stupid […]

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Your Child’s ‘BAD NUMBERS’…….They Must Try Harder…….Right?????

There is a commercial on the air that shows when a woman receives a report from her Doctor and her cholesterol (bad) has dropped,  she is ecstatic.  She high-fives the world……and goes bowling; she is very happy. When it comes to diabetes and numbers, I have always thought it better to take a different approach.  When […]

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Even Elmo Gets Involved in a Cause…..uhm….What’s Your Excuse?

I am a fan of Seth Rogen.  His humor is edgy, he pushes the envelope, he misses, he hits, but he takes risks and in an industry that plays it safe, he seems fearless in trying for something different.  And, I will admit, he also revisits things that work well, hey a guy has to […]

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Passover-Easter: Fun Factoids About Both—-Enjoy!!!!

Apart from English and German, the name of ‘Easter’ has been derived from Pesach, the Hebrew name of Passover festival. “Easter says you can put truth in a grave, but it won’t stay there.”  Clarence W. Hall The date of Passover is variable as it is dependent on the phases of the moon, and thus […]