Entries from May 2007

May 30, 2007

Driving

 The contract is in the mail for my upcoming story in Diabetes Forecast! It will be in the “Reflections” section, the last page in the magazine. I wrote about Diabetes and Driving in a newsletter ezine because I was inspired/fired up after watching an interview on the Ellen DeGeneres show….(I want to include it in [...]

May 30, 2007

Diabetes and Eating Disorders

I have been working on a chapter for my memoir that deals with the time in my life when I was bulimic. It’s hard to write about. For years, I blamed my eating disorder on my parent’s divorce. They had hurt me, and by throwing up my food, I was hurting myself, wanting them to [...]

May 15, 2007

Blind Faith and Reading

 I’ve been feeling like I’m going on blind faith with my writing. The more I write about growing up with diabetes, the more I remember and the better the story gets (or so I think.) And in the meantime I’m sending out queries and submitting to places and sometimes it feels like I’m going on [...]

May 2, 2007

Platform

I found the perfect young woman to write about. Her name is Mollie Singer (www.curemoll.com) and she was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes when she was 4 years old. She is the perfect role model and I’ve written a query to Seventeen magazine in hopes that they will let me write a story about her. [...]