Managing diabetes has its obvious challenges: Constantly pricking your fingers, remembering to take your medication, employing Krispy Kreme avoidance strategies. But 12 years of living with the Big D have included some revealing moments, moments that are well…awkward. View Full Post
Last Halloween was one of my proudest days as a parent of a child with severe food allergies. Our four-year-old son, Graeme, who is allergic to soy, chicken, peanuts, eggs, wheat and a few other foods, trick-or-treated by asking each house what was in the candy they were giving... View Full Post
Tired of dealing with dry, itchy skin? Rosemarie Ingleton, MD, a dermatologist who appeared recently on the Dr. Oz Show, says the foods you eat, including fatty fish and breakfast cereals, along with a few must-have miracle moisturizers, can help you get rid of dry, itchy skin for good. View Full Post
The little gray dog in the picture above is my 8-year-old daughter's pride and joy. The dog's name is Jinx and she's a Schnoodle—the offspring of a schnauzer and a poodle. At Christmas, we adopted Jinx from a shelter and she lives on our farm with our Labradoodle, Callie. You might say we have oodles of doodles. View Full Post
I learned to drive a boat when I was 10. The small green fishing boat my grandfather kept at his lake cabin only had a 5 horsepower engine -- faster than paddling a canoe but not much. Still, it was fast enough to get me in trouble the first time I took it out by myself. When I bounced the boat off a pier, I learned an important safety lesson: Boats don't have brakes. Classic operator error! View Full Post
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