“Do any human beings ever realize life while they live it?” One of my favorite plays to both read and to have performed is Thornton WiIder’s Our Town. Pictured above from over 35 years ago, this one line still resonates with me so many years after I played George, in a truly wonderful production. How […]
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I AM SO ANGRY. She is gone. It happened in 2012. Now a Medical Practitioners Tribunal Service in Manchester, UK, is hearing the case to see what can be done about it. Claire Taylor was a talented dancer and baker who wanted a career as a dietitian as her older brother Andrew had Type 1 […]
I’m always touched by the strength of families who do so much to make “Hope” a reality. The biggest hope I will always have is for a cure for this disease. I know, I know, I KNOW so many say that they are tired of hearing about a cure. It has been promised so long. […]
The call comes in. Another child is diagnosed with type one diabetes. Another family is impacted and changed forever. The call comes in. I’m surely not an island when it comes to this type thing, many take the call when it happens. We have been there. We become the ‘one’ people call for whatever the […]
I have stated often that “I have to do this”. For my kids, I would do anything and I do not merely get up in the morning, I pretty much jump out of bed because I know something GREAT will happen in this cause that has, in essence, chosen me. It is pretty much the largest percentage […]
As I traveled to work yesterday, I came upon a man who was teaching his child how to ride a bicycle. With his one hand he grabbed the seat, and the bike leaned at an angle to the left as his son made his way down the street leaning heavily upon the training wheels as the little boy tried […]