In Germany, people wish each other a “Guten Rutsch” (or a “good slide”) into the new year. Here’s a little visual that might help with that expression
Today, from the bottom of my diabetic heart — and my family’s — wishing you all a great slide into 2010.
I did not get around to compiling a year-in-review post for the field of diabetes as I had hoped (other than my annual roundup of what happened here).…
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If you’re like me — or even if you don’t spend quite as much time browsing “all things diabetes” in cyberspace — you might have noticed that the incredible proliferation of new D-blogs and online communities is making it seemingly impossible to keep up. Which is actually a wonderful thing, I suppose.
Quite by accident, in the days after Christmas, I happened upon a small notice for a San Francisco diabetes meetup. It turned out…
(I do realize that ‘gaggliest’ is not a word)
But Lord, I wish I’d kept a list of all the outrageous, ridiculous, upsetting and/or just plain annoying headlines about diabetes over the past year. Wouldn’t that have made a great end-of-year roundup?
In any case, logging on after a week of offline holiday bliss (dinners with friends, walks on the local nature trail, and assembling a few too many lego contraptions for the kiddos), I…
Once again it’s time to reflect on what marked the year here at DiabetesMine.com. 2009 was surely eventful, both for this blog and for me personally. Never a dull a moment when you’re a busy D-blogger, Health 2.0 advocate, and mother of three, I guess. Here’s a list of some key milestones that stand out in my mind:
January – I was invited to New York to attend a Health Bloggers Summit hosted by the…
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Wishing you and yours a wonderful long weekend.
By way of season’s greetings, a favorite scene from a Christmas classic:
See? You don’t’ have to celebrate Christmas yourself to enjoy this majorly frolicsome film — although you do have to be American, it seems. My German husband didn’t find it funny at all. (Don’t know what you’re missin’, Buddy)
And btw, here’s what that precious Red Ryder BB gun might have looked like if little…
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