Being An Asshole Is Optional

I am interrupting Health Activist Writers Month Challenge to say that some people just don’t understand and some people are just assholes. My daughter was invited to a birthday celebration for a friend that’s turning 13. It will be a great celebration that involves a limo taking the birthday girl, her friends and her family […]

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Black Hole

Today is day one of the Health Activists Writers Month Challenge. The HAWMC is a month-long even put on by WEGO Health. Each day there is a new prompt health activist bloggers are asked to write about. Even though today is day one it is not to late to join in on the fun – […]

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All Nighters – Not What They Used To Be

When I was a teen I my friend Rita would spend the night often and we would sit in my basement bedroom singing and dancing to music from Def Leopard, Madonna, Poison, Bon Jovi, and other hits of the 80’s. On one such night we each put cheap sunglasses as we sang along with “Sunglasses […]

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Shout out to Stephanie

I just had the best conversation with Stephanie who works for Universal Studios Online ticket sales in Orlando. I am trying to move Heaven and Earth to get my family to the Friends for Life Children with Diabetes conference in Orlando this July. We had attended the conference in 07, 08, and 09. Finances and […]

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The Tip of The Iceberg

We recently celebrated Sugarboy’s 6th diaversary (anniversary of the day he was diagnosed with diabetes). Why do we celebrate such a thing? We celebrate life. Sugarboy was in DKA at diagnosis (diabetes ketoacidosis – very serious and dangerous – life threatening actually).  We spent 5 nights in the hospital getting Sugarboy better and learning how […]

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