It’s Halloween. All of the kiddies have come for their candy and gone away happy. Well, not all of them; we did run out of candy at 7:15 and had to turn off the porch light before everybody in the neighborhood got their goodies. Sorry, urchins.
None of the kids had particularly scary [...]

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I’m going to be writing a lot about diabetes over the coming month. Turns out, I have a lot on my mind about my chronic illness. Despite having had it for ten years, I feel like I’m still fairly unskilled at managing it. Basically, I know my readings could be better, and [...]

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In April I went backpacking in Utah with some college friends. It was my first backpacking trip in a very long time and my first time in the desert. I had a lot of fun!
I also had some issues with hydration and insulin. Oh! and anemia, too. Just to remind myself, [...]

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Dear Readers:
I want to thank those of you who regularly visit this site. I’m not exactly sure why you read these rather diverse dispatches. Some of you are family or friends wanting to keep up with what Lisa and I are doing. Others of you — I suspect — come back from time to [...]

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Tomorrow — if all goes well — I’m going to ride my bike around the Quabbin Reservoir in central Massachusetts tomorrow. I’ve been cycling all over this summer, starting before I knew I was anemic and building up to a 62-mile ride through the Berkshires from the southern Massachusetts border with Connecticut to the [...]

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