487. It proves I have a disease. When I was first diagnosed, my blood sugar numbers were in the high 300's. Something was obviously wrong with me given all the weight loss, the incessant thirst, the need to pee all the time. It took one blood test to know what it was. One number and it w...

  I saw my doctor this week and it was an unsatisfying visit to say the least. More struggles with my A1c, quite a shock to me given the low day to day blood sugar readings I've been getting overall. Nothing terrible, just not what I'd expected or would prefer. It's a f...

Arnie Birren writes in the UWMLeader : "Just imagine, one day we'll tell our kids about books. The way they smelled when first purchased, the graceful aging of the yellowed volumes that lined the shelves of resale stores and the satisfaction of turning that final page. Start saying goodbye to the pa...

Money is scarce, but hopefully humor is in good supply. When the well-heeled patrons of New York's venerable Morgan Library wander through its new exhibition of cartoons about money, there may be some hollow laughter as they ponder their own hard times. The exhibit of 70 years of New Yorker magazine...

How often do you think of North Dakota? I'll confess, I haven't thought about it since the primaries.... But author John Berendt, the author of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" a book banned for four days from the Beulah High School library, said the incident made him think about North Dako...

  I'm really trying to not let my diabetes be an excuse for feeling sad or down. In truth, it is a real source of ongoing challenge and fatigue. Because of this fact, I've worked hard to give myself the space and permission to take the time I need to replenish and recover from all that...

These two collages from elina minn make it hard for me to breath, they're so beautiful and fresh. Their compositions and use of motifs are at once restrained (above) and complex (below). Both share an exuberance and energy brought to life through a different lens. Such range and successful execu...

Washington Post reports: New rules have been proposed for D.C. public libraries, including a ban on sleeping and a limit on bringing in bags, in what library officials called an effort to make the system more welcoming. But Mary Ann Luby, an advocate for the homeless, said the bag and sleeping rules...

  So much of growth comes from the little things adding up to new behaviors or outcome. Last night just a moment occurred for me. Nothing huge in it's own right but on balance, a pretty big shift in the scheme of things.  We were at my best friends house for Christmas dinner last nig...

A Rocky Creek (Tampa area) man wants to have a film he regards as pornographic removed from the shelves of the Town 'N Country Regional Public Library. Frank DeAngelis, a former police officer and retired sociology professor, said he didn't know what to expect when he checked out "The Films of James...