Omnipod Update

I’ve been wearing the Omnipod pump for a week now and I am slowly allowing myself to get excited about it. It took a good 3-4 days to get on track, I had a few scary highs which was upsetting and frustrating but I have to attribute it to the fact that I started wearing [...]

omnipod

It’s been 24 hours of wearing the omnipod, the real thing this time, and I think I really like it! I keep feeling like I’m forgetting something because I’m not doing a shot, or shots. We had a fondue party last night and I set up the pump so it would give me my insulin [...]

Writing Bail Outs

Bail Out The Writers 
This essay by Paul Greenberg in the New York Times Sunday Book Review starts with a joke about a writer selling his car, flat screen tv, and couch. Mr. Greenberg says he is tired of the nation-wide writing=loser stereotype, and suggests a bail out or buy out, to lure other writers out [...]

Creative Nonfiction is the Most Challenging of the Genres

I have been working on my coming-of-age memoir for the past…I don’t even know…it feels like forever, but at least writing consistently for my MFA since May, and when I read this post, I felt understood.
In his blog Lee Gutkind writes, “The creative nonfiction writer, whether writing immersion journalism or memoir, must combine the skills [...]