We know Scott Benner as the great D-Dad from New Jersey who’s behind the blog, Arden’s Day. You know, the diabetes daddy blog named for his daughter Arden who’s been living with type 1 since age 2 in 2006.
Of course, Scott’s been blogging and advocating for a number of years in the Diabetes Online Community (DOC). But he‘s been all over the news in 2013 with the release of his new book, Life Is…
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With self-publishing on the rise, it seems like everyone’s an author these days — and the diabetes community has its share of book-writers of all sorts.
Just skim through the listings over at Amazon. A quick search of “diabetes” brings up 22,000 “new and popular” titles, many of them involving food and diets, but also exercise, lifestyle and personal encounters with this illness. The term “type 1 diabetes” narrows the findings down to 952 books…
Those of us living with diabetes carry a lot of baggage. And no, that doesn’t just mean the various cases and pouches we need to haul our myriad D-supplies all over the place!
Any PWD (person with diabetes) knows the daily challenges we endure, involving both literal and physical “bags” we need to carry along the way.
That is the exact focus of a new book just released by Naomi Kingery, a fellow diabetes advocate…
When he started writing his newest novel, True Believers, award-winning author and public radio show host Kurt Andersen didn’t think diabetes would become a part of the story the way it did. But what the Brooklyn author and longtime type 1 ended up with was just that: a book that weaves life with type 1 diabetes into the narrative in a brand new way.
As a fictitious first-person novel, the book opens a cracked window to…
It’s always refreshing to read educational books about diabetes that are written by people with diabetes. Somehow, the combination of thoroughly researched information coupled with a realistic perspective is key in making diabetes education tolerable. And we can’t think of a better researched guide to the nuanced life of a woman with diabetes than Amy Stockwell Mercer’s new book The Smart Woman’s Guide to Diabetes — which we previewed in Amy’s guest post here at…
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