James Mckean, My professor at Queens suggested I read Tillie Olsen’s, “I Stand Ironing,” after he read a story I’m working on about my son’s anxiety and my own. I just got the book, “Tell Me a Riddle” in the mail yesterday and when I sat down to read last night after a loooong day, [...]
In case you can’t read this, it says, “My favorite thing about my dad is when he takes me to the candy store.” This was sent home with Miles along with other art projects on his last day of school. It was wrapped for Father’s Day and has been sitting on top of our dresser [...]
On this Father’s Day I wanted to write about how my dad taught me to find pleasure in food when I was a child. Diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at fourteen-years-old, I had two strikes against me when it came to food. Strike one= as women, we are not supposed to love food. Instead, we [...]
“I’ll take an order of flax seed, omega-3 and sunlight please!” This is what I’d order from the fast food window if I could…..
Because the medical community still doesn’t know exactly what triggers type 1 diabetes, there are always new discoveries about possible links to causes or triggers. I remember when I was in college [...]
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