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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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 […]
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 […]
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. […]
There was a d-mom who was unable to be with her child who has diabetes. The child was staying with her grandparents and her meter read ‘high’. A second reading was taken, and ‘high’ came across again. She, unable to get to where her child was, asked what should she do, or have the grandparents do? As I […]
Does anyone else think of a Hippo when they see the word, or experience a, “Hypo”. I think there should be a Hippo named Hypo. We feel the weight of the world on our shoulders when we are faced with a “Hypo” so the weight on our shoulders is about the same of carrying a ‘Hippo’ […]