The Green Bracelet Post

August 9, 2013.Reading time 21 minutes.

Warning – This post is over 2300 words. It is also not funny. It was a hard post to write. I appreciate you reading it – maybe after you read it you will read the prior post and consider supporting our JDRF walk. Not trying to belittle the importance of this post by plugging for […]

She Did It Herself

July 26, 2013.Reading time 12 minutes.

There was a recent post on Diabetes Mine by Will. You can read it and all the great comments in response to it HERE (Link removed because I am suspicious the post was written only to generate page views and put money in Will’s pocket. Basically Will called our kids ‘spoiled brats’ because we do our […]

Unexpected Heroes

July 23, 2013.Reading time 9 minutes.

This is not the green bracelet post I promised. Still working on that. Each year at the Children With Diabetes Friends For Life conference individuals are recognized and awarded a plaque identifying them as Unexpected Heroes. As a conference attendee I am not privy to why or how individuals are chosen. I have great faith […]

Friendly Fire

June 28, 2013.Reading time 10 minutes.

My Middles is 11. He plays video games. In fact if left to himself he would play video games for 12-14 hours – emerging from his room only occasionally to get sustenance. He would do that very stealthy so I wouldn’t see him and remind him to put away clothes, pick up a room, or […]

Screw Schrodinger

June 24, 2013.Reading time 9 minutes.

I am not a scientist. I vaguely remembered the lessons of Schrödinger’s Cat in regards to thought process and even less in regards to Quantum Mechanics when I was briefly introduced to it in some philosophy class in college. I was only reminded of it while watching an episode of “The Big Bang Theory” (funny […]