“Diabetes Rising” by Dan Hurley
I first heard of Dan Hurley and his book, “Diabetes Rising“, over at Amy’s site (Diabetes Mine). She did a two part interview about a year ago (Part 1, Part 2), and there was something about what Dan said that…
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CWD Friends For Life – Epic Sizer!
I walked into the Richard Rubin Keynote (opening session) with an overflowing breakfast plate and my shoulder bag full of diet sodapop. After only a step or two into the room I was stopped in my tracks by the sheer…
What’s my insulin to emotion factor?
I’ve always been aware of emotions and stress affecting blood sugars. I’ve always thought to watch for it and try to “do something”, but it’s always been a very vague thing. Vague things are hard to deal with on an…
CWD Friends For Life – Fast Driver!
Bernard, Amy, Kerri, Scott, photo by Jeff Hitchcock One of the hardest things at CWD Friends For Life (FFL) was deciding on which session to attend for any given pocket of time. Each session ran for an hour, or an…
Singing Praises for Ginger Vieira (and me!)
I’ve been working a lot with Ginger Vieira, and she is one of the best things I have done for myself in a long time. Maybe ever. She is really good at helping people, and I am thankful to have…
First Follow Up – 2010 Roche Social Media Summit
On July 30th we had the first of what is to be regular, scheduled, quarterly follow-up conference calls with the group at Roche. There were two scheduled conference calls that day, in the hopes that everyone could attend one of…
CWD Friends For Life – First Timer
I am easily overwhelmed — especially the first time I go somewhere or do something. I think the folks at Children With Diabetes (CWD) must have known that. They must have also known that I’m not the only one…
Familiar Faces, New Places – and Judge For Yourself
I love that little thrill I get when I recognize a face from the online community in a new or different place. I got that little thrill when I saw Scott Hanselman grinning back at me from the latest e-mail…
CWD Friends For Life – The Primer
I have a million things I want to talk about regarding my first ever Children With Diabetes (CWD) Friends For Life (FFL) conference. I’ve been trying to sort it all out in my head before starting to write about it,…
(see other arm)
I went to a small, but growing, local type 1 meet-up last night, and had a blast, as usual. Mike, Peterspoon, Dean, Scott This picture happened at about 10:30 PM, just before the gals working at Caribou Coffee kicked us…
No-Sugar Added Poetry Book
“From words, carefully chosen, purposefully arranged, emerges a shared experience and mutual understanding” – Lee Ann Thill, in the introduction of No-Sugar Added Poetry. I received a copy of No-Sugar Added Poetry at the 2010 Roche Social Media Summit (Roche…
theBetes:NOW
theBetes:NOW is a really fun project that I bumped into at the CWD Friends For Life (FFL) conference. It’s a project that a couple of the super creative Dunlap teenagers are putting together, and I’m so impressed with how it…
Life Coaching, Weight Lifting, Book Writing
How many of you have heard of Ginger Vieira? I guarantee that not enough of you have, and I’m going to shout her praises from the highest rooftop I can find. Ginger was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes and celiac…
High-Wire Forest Adventure!
Meet Becky. She’s from the UK. She’s crazy. And she’s fabulous. I read her post about a group of her friends doing an obstacle course, high above the ground in the forest canopy, and I thought she totally lost…
D-Feast Friday – Scott Style
My “contribution” to this fabulous recipe sharing idea is what NOT to do while cooking grilled cheese sandwiches. Do NOT try to multitask and get things done while cooking. I need to remember that I have burned the crap out…
Let’s Keep Talking
I’d like to keep talking about the 2010 Roche Social Media Summit. There is unfinished business. I haven’t read many blog posts about it yet (I’m chronically behind on my blog reading. I will get to them soon – I…
What Life Is About
I spent this weekend visiting with my wife’s extended family. All of her immediate family are near us, around Minneapolis, MN. But most of her extended family is closer to East Moline, IL, where many of them grew up. We…
Thank you!
Thank you all for the incredible amount of great feedback for an adults with type 1 track at Children WIth Diabetes, Friends for Life 2011. I am so grateful to be a part of this community. There are so many…
Adult Type 1 Conference
Imagine that you have an opportunity to help shape a huge conference designed for people with type 1 diabetes. What would you do? What would you want to see? What would you want to hear? I attended my very first…
2010 Roche Social Media Summit
Disclosure In the spirit of full disclosure and transparency, Roche paid for my travel, lodging, and food for this trip. Roche did not ask anyone to blog about the summit, nor did they pitch any products to us. I stayed…