In January of this year, I reached 40 years of living with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Over that time, I’ve learned a lot about managing T1D and have been able to get results that satisfy me for some years now. What that means in numbers for the folks who want […]
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Me, a few years pre-diagnosis: I was diagnosed with diabetes 33 years ago yesterday. I spent a month living in Pasqua Hospital in Regina, Saskatchewan, injecting insulin into an orange, making friends with a little girl with leukemia, and missing school desperately. When I went home, I took Toronto & […]
My DIY standing desk at my university office “Sitting is the new smoking,” they say. Since I already have type 1 diabetes, I don’t need extra health risk factors. My PhD is in Human Factors, a field that include ergonomics, so I have been familiar with the idea of standing […]
In keeping with my themed reading (all pleasure reading must at least have some practical applicability to my life) I took Motherhood: The Elephant in the Laboratory with me to a conference combined with a stopover to visit my in-laws last week. The book was interesting, inspiring, and had some […]
I read this book a couple of months ago, and it really resonated for me. I love books of essays. I have always been an enormous fan of books of short stories, and over the years, I have gravitated more and more towards nonfiction and especially creative nonfiction. The turning […]