Jessica Apple grew up in Houston. She studied Bible and Ancient Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan, and completed an MA in the same field at the Hebrew University. She began to write and publish short stories while a student, and continues to write essays and fiction while raising her three sons (and many pets).
Jessica’s work has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Financial Times Magazine, The Southern Review, The Bellevue Literary Review, Tablet Magazine, and elsewhere. She is the diabetes correspondent for The Faster Times. In 2009 she and her husband, both type 1 diabetics, founded A Sweet Life, where she serves as editor-in-chief. Jessica loves spending time with her sons, cooking with her husband, playing with her cats, reading, biking, drinking coffee, and whenever possible, taking a nap.
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Most kids love Halloween. Can you blame them? It's a holiday loaded with creepy crawly things, costumes, parties, and of course, candy. I recall the trick-or-treating loot my brother and I brought home in our childhood. We always had enough candy to last for months. We didn't usually keep all of the candy, but one year my brother outsmarted everyone and hid some in his desk drawer.
Rosh Hashana, the Jewish New Year, is just around the corner. Traditionally, Rosh Hashana meals include apples and honey which symbolize a sweet new year, and guarantee a fast rise in blood glucose levels. So what's a diabetic to do?
One option is, of course, to have a tiny bite and call it quits....
Dr. Mariela Glandt, an endocrinologist and director of the Diabetes Medical Center in Tel Aviv uses a short course of intensive insulin therapy in order to "reset" beta cells and help them return to an earlier and more manageable stage of the disease.
I have no doubt that HelpAround will benefit the diabetes community. Our lives depend on supplies, after all, but with our busy lifestyles and scattered minds, forgetting something is a real risk. As we begin to use HelpAround, other communities will learn and become inspired by the solidarity among people with diabetes.
As 2013 comes to an end, we're taking a look back at our best diabetes articles of the year. From science and technology to personal essays to op-ed, we're been overwhelmed with the quality of our writers' work. We hope you've enjoyed reading as much as we've enjoyed publishing.
We’re very excited to announce that we recently incorporated ASweetLife and related projects under a new nonprofit media organization, Diabetes Media Foundation (DMF), devoted to disseminating information about, and generating community around, living a healthy life with diabetes. DMF helps people living with or affected by diabetes find information, community, and support from one another, and to share their stories.
Now as an adult – a diabetic adult – I’ve come to appreciate mushrooms not for their real estate potential, taste, texture, aura of sophistication or hallucinogenic effects. I like mushrooms because they’re low carb...
It’s Big Blue Test time again! This is our chance to not only get active, but to help improve the lives of people with diabetes in need. By participating in the Big Blue Test between now and November 14 and sharing the experience online at BigBlueTest.org...
The Diabetes Online Community's (DOC) support has been immeasurable. We felt this more than ever on Monday when our science editor, Karmel Allison, nearly fainted as she stood behind President Obama, supporting him while he addressed the nation on the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
The obvious solution to managing a road trip with diabetes is, of course, to plan ahead and pack snacks. But that’s not so easy when you’re staying in hotels without kitchen facilities. And it’s pretty hard to explain to hungry, cranky kids why you’re thinking of driving 30 miles out of the way to find a store that sells expensive containers of sliced cucumbers when “look!” there’s a 0.96 cent donut for sale down the street.
