Jessica Apple
Jessica Apple

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. Follow Jessica on Twitter (@jessapple)

boxes of sardines in the beachfront

Make Peace With Sardines

We poured sardine oil into a bowl, dipped our fingers into it and then rubbed it, generously, all over our kittens, as if we were shampooing them...
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Easter Fun: Egg Chicks

Are you looking for an Easter activity that doesn't involve eating candy? Here's a great way to use the leftover hard boiled eggs you don't end up decorating, and get your kids to eat something healthy, too.
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Use the First Drop of Blood

A recent study published in Diabetes Care investigated whether capillary glucose concentrations, as measured in the first and second drops of blood, differed more than 10 percent when compared with a control glucose concentration in different situations.
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Missy & Olivia

The Eat Local Experiment

I did a lot of preparing last fall for the start of my project. I froze tomatoes and made a number of stocks. We also purchased a half a cow, so we have a freezer full of local beef...
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