Pumping insulin can offer a person with diabetes more freedom, more precision, and less stress on a management basis. Bu…
Art & Books
Walking the Blood Sugar Tightrope: An Excerpt from Balancing Diabetes
After living with type 1 diabetes for almost three decades, I’ve come to realize that nothing works more efficiently and…
Caffeinated: How Our Daily Habit Helps, Hurts, and Hooks Us (Book Review)
Carpenter traces the world history of caffeine, which is foundation for his argument that we have been hooked for a long…
Balancing Diabetes: A Conversation with Kerri Sparling
When Kerri Sparling first started her blog Six Until Me in 2005, she was sharing her struggles about living with diabete…
Diabetes in Fiction: Good Like This by Peter Arpesella
My superpower is to be healthy and constantly in touch with myself. Diabetes is a built-in mechanism that requires me to…
Diabetes in Fiction: A Review of True Believers by Kurt Andersen
Very few protagonists in contemporary adult literature have struggled with diabetes, even though the experience intersec…
Balancing Diabetes, A Book By Kerri Sparling
You know Kerri Sparling as a diabetes advocate, international speaker, and blogger. Now she's an author, too. Check ou…
Book Review: Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls by David Sedaris
When his most recent collection, Let’s Explore Diabetes with Owls, was published last spring, the title made me wonder i…
50 Shades of Diabetes
Don't let the title mislead you... this is not an erotic novel where syringe and vial discover their passion for one ano…
Book Excerpt: Islands and Insulin, A Diabetic Sailor’s Memoir
The fear and frustration of diabetes fences me in. It has slowly worn me out. I have to get back to the girl I was befor…
