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Painting Parties…..Things Seen SO Differently……Not Unlike Diabetes.

It’s been ‘all-the-rage’ for some time now.  A group of people get together in a social atmosphere (translation: wine is served) and look at a painting of some kind and try to duplicate what they are observing.  Mind you that all participants are looking at the exact same art work when they proceed to reproduce it……..as theirs. We […]

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Suck it Up. Move On Already. Ignorance…….is Stupid, Yes?

Even after 23 years in the ring fighting this disease, it will alarm me all of my days when I experience people who do not understand our children’s diabetes.  Not the very details of the disease but the bigger strokes, “you should know better”-type.  In discussions over the years, I have come to the conclusion […]

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Many Have Given Much; Nothing is a ‘Given’.

I have always loved the concept of space travel.  I built model rockets when I was kid and even did my count-down with my Estee Rockets.  Once I even made it a ‘manned spacecraft’ and placed a spider in the nose of the model and watched with nervous anticipation as it climbed toward the clouds,  I felt the sense […]

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Discipline, Diabetes, & Boundaries…….Thin Line; But a Line None-the-less.

I said the same thing to each of my children once they obtained their license;  “if you tell me you are going to be home at 12:00 midnight and it is 12:01 am and you have not called, I will think you are dead in a ditch someplace.  That’s drastic I know, but that’s what […]

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You Can Rest Assured…..a Storm WILL ARRIVE.

There’s a storm coming.  If you live on the east coast and you did not see the weather report (for whatever reason THAT would happen, I have no idea), you would know a storm was coming because you cannot find bread or milk on any grocery shelves.  That’s what people ‘do here’ when a storm […]

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Pump Malfunctions??…..Do You Panic?……There’s Just No Need To!!!!

A man stands at the bottom of a stopped escalator.  Not a long escalator, mind you, just normal-one-floor type.  His face is red with anger as the escalator comes to a stop. “I cannot believe this, I’m so late.” There is a little boy behind him who says, “A broken escalator is just a staircase.” […]