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Frozen, Elsa, Let it Go, and the John Lasseter Interview—All of it and His Son with T1.

I am informed that our friends at Aubrey’s Army website has a link posted to the John Lasseter video from last night’s television show on ABC; The Story of Frozen; Making a Disney Animated Classic. On the video, Mr. Lasseter speaks of Frozen’s character of Elsa and how she, in some ways, parallels the life of […]

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If Only….in Our Favor. A T1 16-Year-Old Driver, Makes the Right Call!!!

How many times have things happened where we said, “…if only….”?  If they were only a few minutes earlier or a few minutes later, the catastrophe would have been avoided? “If Only”. A while back I started noticing how many times, “if only in our favor”.  How many times we have the story end in […]

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John Lasseter—Frozen’s ‘Let it Go’ and Elsa, Relates to His Son with T1

NOTE ADDED: In some postings it has Anna in the headline—it has been corrected accordingly to be Elsa; which is the correct character. Tonight on Behind the Scenes Look at  The Story of Frozen on ABC, creator, genius John Lasseter talked candidly about the character of Elsa and how he saw similarities with her feeling alone and different […]

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Does the First Day of School Feel Like the REAL NEW YEAR’S DAY????

They are everywhere. Pictures of kids beginning their first day of school.  K through college, every grade in-between, and the first day of school (typically) happening this week with kids ready to go.  I have always felt that this week is more of a new year….well than New Year’s Day. It is at this time that […]

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Labor Day and Diabetes—-DO You Know the INCREDIBLE Connection?

Happy Labor Day.  Or as I like to say ‘happy-and-thanks-to-an-incredible-group-of-people-who-keep-hope-for-a-cure-alive-in-my-eyes-day”. You see, the idea of Labor Day becoming a legal holiday in the 1880’s to honor the Central Labor Union of New York and New Jersey; which would ‘morph’ into the many divisions of what we now call the AFL-CIO.  It was ‘this celebration of […]

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When it Comes to Diabetes……There is NO HUMOR in this matter.

Say the word ‘pee’ in a group of kids and snickering will surely follow.  Peeing, all need to do it, and we all do it.  When I lecture in grammar school classrooms and I say that constant urination, or peeing, is on ‘the list’ dealing with diabetes; snickering starts. I hit the snickering dead to rights.  […]