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And My Hero Is…
The overdue final chapter of Diabetes Blog Week. This from the champ herself: My heroes are my mom and my dad. They’re my heroes because they help me through type one diabetes. Also, because they...
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Fix. It.
Not quite related to diabetes care, management, complaints of, progress in, fed up with, tears over, yada yada yada….but I think this relates to my recent post Hulk Smash, in which I reflected on my...
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Inspiration: For When You Need It Most
I don’t even own this book, but for some reason it is always there on my mind or in the back of my mind or otherwise someplace near to it. When I check it out of the library, I usually keep it through...
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A Lesson on Atoms(or Letting Go)
When it was early summer vacation and close enough to the end of the school year for Lia to still be considered an elementary student and not a rising sixth grader Franca and I weren’t sure what...
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Logic, Strength and Love
One of the great things the internet has brought is the ability to reach out and make a difference in the lives of people we’ve never met. I’ve been a part of that phenomena for almost three years now,...
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Back to D-Wild
In honor of our upcoming 2nd Annual Into D-Wild Backpacking Adventure, I’d like to share the post Franca wrote about last year’s family trip. We’re taking what lessons we learned and heading back into...
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Just Around the Next Bend
As Steve mentioned a few weeks ago, we packed up the gear and the kids and headed off to the mountains of Southwest Virginia for some much needed back-to-nature time. No cell phones, no computers, no...
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Bardolatry
Then there are the books I should have read but didn’t, or did with so little regard for what was in them. I read them—or not as the case often was—for assignment, for a grade, because somebody said...
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Book Review: The Thyroid Solution Diet
First off: Don’t let the title throw you. This book is not just about the thyroid or those who suffer from thyroid related issues. Second: Anyone interested in extending their life should read it. I...
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Honest Open Arms
It was Richard Bach, author of Jonathan Livingston Seagull, one of my favorite books growing up, who once said: “Rarely do members of the same family grow up under the same roof.” I am thoughtful of...
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Cruddy American Lesson #One
And so it begins, Z’s American High School experience. First lesson: Winning is Everything. And if you’re not good enough to win, you can always fetch water. So, she tried and failed to make the...
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Heroes and Heroines
I must admit, this caught me by surprise today. I wasn’t prepared when I learned that it was Blog Week and considered sharing on Without Envy. To be honest, I’m not even sure why I keep the site out...
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Mums the Word
In the beginning when it was 90% us and 10% Lia in charge of managing her diabetes, we would tell everyone we knew about it. Tell her teachers, of course, and her coaches and the school administrators,...
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D-stuff
We have too much stuff, we know that. It exposes itself slow and daring, like a neighborhood pervert, every time we open the garage door, and when cornered, let’s say in a closet, it cowers behind...
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A New Utopia
Of changes we have seen plenty. My writing here documents most of them, those both good and bad, welcomed and unwelcomed, short-lived and long. But the one change I haven’t written much about is the...
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Eating, the Best Part of Our Day
I am going to cheat today, day 5 of Diabetes Blog Week, but not because I don’t find this topic engaging. If anything, in our house, food is the only subject worth discussing everyday. And we do,...
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a favorite
It’s Day 6 of Diabetes Blog Week and we’re asked to share a favorite sentence or blog post from our writing. Though there are a number I could select—specifically any of those tagged, The First Year—I...
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Dog Days of Summer 2.0
I had never been much of a fan of the dog days of summer. It was always too hot, the weather too unpredictable, the days too long, and they always come at a time of the year when throughout human...
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Intentional Uproot
Can you revelate? In an article that appeared in the Rocky Mount Telegram one month after we opened our bakery, Alimentaire Wholesome Breads, in Tarboro NC—and another written more recently—Franca...
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