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Panic or Solve It—-How do You Handle Life’s Problems?

I enter an elevator.  Now four of us are standing there as the door closes.  Man #1 is dressed in a suit that I can only imagine the price and he is about sixty-ish.  Man #2 is in jeans, a t-shirt, and a backwards baseball cap say around late twenties.   Man #3 is in his […]

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Nothing that You Hear……Only Half of What you See.

Mama always taught me; ‘…….to believe nothing that you hear and only half of what you see…..”  The premise, quite simply, is that nothing is as it seems.   If someone is speaking, everything they say is as they see the world; and that “….it ain’t necessarily the way it is….”  It also may have influenced […]

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Know it, Learn it, and——Do Your Job!!!!

I do my job. When it came to diabetes and our kids, we did our job.  We did it with all due diligence, we did it with education, we did it with all we had.  We did not beat ourselves up over a high A1C and we did not dance in the streets when the […]

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Sung a la Elvis…It’s a Blue Diabetes…How do YOU Shake, Rattle, Roll It…Thank You Very Much?

My friend and wonderful author, Andrew Deutscher asks a very interesting question that I would like to get out there to hear your comments/feedback.  If you have diabetes or you have a child with diabetes, needless-to-say that at some point or another, you are going to want to scream from the highest mountain…….and maybe you do […]

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Is Diabetes Winning…….or Are You IN THE ZONE?!?!?!?!

I have often felt that this life around us is like a buffet of positive energy.  You have so many choices to feed yourself in one of a million roadways that can lead to happiness.  SO many roadways just full of great experiences and great times along with great friends.  I am amazed how many […]

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Mass Murders…….A Lesson to be Learned…..Even for Our Diabetes Community.

With the tragic events occurring yesterday in Oregon, I was left scratching my head as my heart ached.  Later in the day my thought process made me ask a question, which quite honestly, I cannot find the answer.  How many times have we had to pick up the broken bodies of people shot in mass […]