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...