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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]