Airplanes Elephants and Merri-Go-Rounds

April 5, 2012.Reading time 9 minutes.

Airplanes, Elephants and Merry Go Rounds Day 5 Health Activists Writers Challenge Month So today’s assignment was to go to http://www.flickr.com/explore and write an ekphrasis post about a random image. Sounds fun except I ran out of ‘word a day’ toilet paper before ever learning ekphrasis. Thus I had to look it up. According to Wikipedia: the […]

Why I write

April 4, 2012.Reading time 4 minutes.

I write because… I have only been at this diabetes blog thing for about 6 weeks. I started drinking the Kool-Aid as an outlet for my own thoughts and feelings. I didn’t expect many to find let alone read my blog posts aside from close friends who I guilt into doing so. Last time I […]

Superpower

April 3, 2012.Reading time 1 minute.

HAWMC Day 3 Health Activists Writer’s month Challenge 30 Days 30 PostsSuperpower Day. If you had a superpower – what would it be? How would you use it? When I was little I wanted Dr. Doolittle’s powers. I wanted to communicate with animals. I mean how cool would it be if I could chat with […]

Who Said It Best

April 2, 2012.Reading time 7 minutes.

Too Many too choose from… Day 2 of the Health Activists Writer’s Month Challenge Who said it best? Today, focus on something you’ve heard, read, or even said as the basis for your post. Choose a quote that inspires you – positively or negatively – and gets you thinking. I love quotes – I have […]

Blast From The Past

April 1, 2012.Reading time 9 minutes.

Participating in the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge April 1st Health Time Capsule. Pretend you’re making a time capsule of you & your health focus that won’t be opened until 2112. What’s in it? What would people think of it when they found it? I have struggled with this first post (doesn’t make me confident […]