My Story
I'm in my 40s.
Type 1 diabetes since March 1984, when I was a little 5-year-old kiddo.
(Same as my mom, diagnosed with type 1 at the same young age back in the 50s)
Originally from Southeast Michigan, we lived in Central Indiana from 2004 to 2015 before returning to our home state of Michigan.
Type 1 diabetes since March 1984, when I was a little 5-year-old kiddo.
(Same as my mom, diagnosed with type 1 at the same young age back in the 50s)
Originally from Southeast Michigan, we lived in Central Indiana from 2004 to 2015 before returning to our home state of Michigan.
A newspaper journalist by trade, hitting all the various types of papers in my first professional decade out of college - weekly, large and small dailies, and a statewide specialty legal newspaper.
Then, there's Diabetes Advocacy...
It all truly began in about 2006 after finding what's become an ever-expanding Diabetes Online Community. Aside from my creative and journalistic writing, I've been periodically writing about diabetes for more than a decade - first offline in my own computer journal then gradually online through listservs, AOL message boards, community forums, and then a MySpace blog before eventually starting my own free blog in 2005. It was mostly personal journaling and writing that touched on diabetes periodically, but eventually after reading more D-focused blogs online and connecting with the online community that became my focus. The Corner Booth became my own little corner of the world online where I could tell my story of how diabetes has affected my life and how it's changed since I've learned I wasn’t alone.
That led to a new career path, working for DiabetesMine since 2012 where I combined my passions for both journalism and diabetes advocacy full-time. So that's where you could find my D-stories and how I worked to connect the dots until that time came to close down DMine in April 2022.
Here, at The Corner Booth, you'll find my personal tales of whatever fits the mood - politics, poetry, my life and family, or anything else that might come to mind!
As a Sigma Pi Fraternity man, I've learned to live by some basic ideals and these are what I strive to make real in my own daily life:
Advancing Truth and Justice
Promote Scholarship
Encourage Chivalry
Diffuse Culture
Develop Character, in the service of God and Man.
I Believe.
That is a part of everything I do, personally and professionally, online and offline. I believe that we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves, and this is just one snapshot of how I work to be a part of that broader human experiment and do my part in whatever small little way I can.
In order to change the world, you just have to start in your own little corner of it. This is mine.
As a Sigma Pi Fraternity man, I've learned to live by some basic ideals and these are what I strive to make real in my own daily life:
Advancing Truth and Justice
Promote Scholarship
Encourage Chivalry
Diffuse Culture
Develop Character, in the service of God and Man.
I Believe.
That is a part of everything I do, personally and professionally, online and offline. I believe that we're all a part of something bigger than ourselves, and this is just one snapshot of how I work to be a part of that broader human experiment and do my part in whatever small little way I can.
In order to change the world, you just have to start in your own little corner of it. This is mine.
"Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope... and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
~ Robert F. Kennedy
