Six years ago today was a normal day for just about everyone else in this world, with the exception of Jesse’s family. Jesse passed away six years ago today. If you ride in rides and/or if you are active in the diabetes community, chances are you know that there is a meaning behind “2/3” or shortened […]
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It was an absolutely horrendous night. I need to share this so people know what my life is like……………………………………… Do people REALLY need to know what my life is like? I get that there is misunderstanding. I get that people could know a whole lot more; and would make my life easier. But do I care […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]