One afternoon in Ulaan Baatur, Otgoo invited my husband and me to a traditional Mongolian feast. Otgoo, a friend of our host family, had given us tours of little known temples; she’d helped us bargain for belt buckles in Naran Tuul, an enormous outdoor market. Young and fashionable, she’d even brought us to her favorite nightclub—a...

Douglas Cairns grew up in the Highlands of Scotland watching Royal Air Force fast jets fly 250 feet above his house.  When he was 8-years-old he told his parents, “I’m going to fly one of those jets some day.” Douglas did fulfill his boyhood dream.  He joined the air squadron while in university and the RAF from there. ...

I have been to Bali a few times since I moved to Hong Kong in late 2008.  Never before, though, did it occur to me to seek out Ketut Liyer the medicine man/palm reader from the memoir Eat Pray Love who, because of author Elizabeth Gilbert’s dependence upon him for spiritual guidance, gained fame and a cult-like following.  Many...

Glass ampoule with Connaught wooden box. Courtesy of Eli Lilly and Company Archives The New York Historical Society’s new exhibition, “Breakthrough: The Dramatic Story of the Discovery of Insulin” is an illuminating display of historical documents and artifacts relating to the quest for a treatment of diabetes.  Circling the one-room...

I’m mildly agoraphobic and it’s not easy for me to plan long trips.  And while I like looking at travel guides for places like Ecuador or Tanzania and imagining what it would be like to go there, I know that I’m not brave enough to go through with the trip.  So what inevitably happens when I read these sort of ...

Bridget McNulty is a South African writer and journalist, and a Type 1 diabetic. Her first novel, Strange Nervous Laughter, was published in South Africa in 2007 and released in the USA in May 2009. She has written articles for a number of South African magazines, including ELLE, Real Simple, the Oprah magazine, Psychologies and Woman...

My friend Betsy and I weren’t looking for redemption — we’re grownups who work hard to make the world better than we found it, take both vitamins and good advice, and are not given to debauchery — and yet we found it. At a restaurant. Grezzo, a warm and intimate place in Boston’s foodie and famous North...

How do people with diabetes embrace their inner Julia Child (insert favorite chef here) when traveling abroad?  Do we stick with what we know because it is safer? How can we enjoy food and manage our blood sugars when everything is unfamiliar?  And what do you do if you relocate abroad, as I have, leaving everything behind including...