Category Archives: Inspiration

Guest Post: Creating Normal

Today’s guest post is from the ever amazing Steve Richert of LivingVertical.  Steve is on an incredible 365 day mission to empower people living with Type 1 Diabetes, and raise awareness of this invisible condition through rock climbing every day.  … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday: 10th Anniversary Trip

Photos from the weekend trip to Michigan City for our 10th anniversary. Enjoy! http://www.flickr.com/apps/slideshow/show.swf?v=121572

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Diabetes Art Day: The Garden of Pain

Today is the 3rd annual Diabetes Art Day, and I’m proud to be able to participate and support this worthwhile event.  This year, I’ve strayed away from the community theme that I ran with previously.  The idea for this creation … Continue reading

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A Somber Anniversary

“April’s parents were married on 9/11, about 30 years ago.  And given her mother’s battle with cancer, today I have mourned for them.  Because this 9/11 may very well be the last that they have.  On this day when we … Continue reading

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Wordless Wednesday: AADE Highlights

Photos from AADE 12 in Indianapolis. Four amazing diabetes advocates: (L to R) Hope Warshaw, Manny Hernandez, Amy Tenderich, and David Edelman. It was an honor being featured in their presentation. Great meeting Nicole Johnson, Miss America 1999, at AADE … Continue reading

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Everyone has a Bomb

It’s been two weeks since the 4th Roche Social Media Summit wrapped up in Indianapolis, and this is my first post post about it.  Better late than never, right? To be honest, I don’t know what I can say about … Continue reading

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Almost Wordless Wednesday: Social Butterflies

I took April and her dad to the botanical conservatory on Sunday to see the Butterflies of Malaysia exhibition before it closed. Some of the little creatures were quite social.

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Six Sentence Sales Pitch

It’s day 29 of the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge and today’s prompt is: Six Sentence Story. Six Sentence Story. In this day of micro-blogging – brevity is a skill worth honing. Can you tell a story and make it short … Continue reading

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A Little Heart

It’s day 26 of the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge and the prompt is: Health tagline. Health tagline. Give yourself, your blog, your condition, or some aspect of your health a tagline. Make sure it’s catchy! I’ve given a lot of … Continue reading

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Things We Forget

 Today is day 23 of the Health Activist Writer’s Month Challenge and since it is a writer’s choice day, I’m revisiting a prompt I skipped yesterday.  Things We Forget.  Here’s my post-it reminder.

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