What a trip this last month has been. To be honest, the last week has been a bit of a struggle to find something interesting to say. In general, I found it difficult to write on demand. But it’s done. The daily updates and the eleventh hour races to post are [...]

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Winter — usually my least favorite five month-long season — has been slow coming this year in Massachusetts. For that I’m quite grateful. If I hadn’t been sleeping off the jet-lag after staying up way too late watching AMC’s remake of “The Prisoner,” I would have gone for a nice warm ride. [...]

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Lisa and I made it home from Wyoming to find the house still standing, the heat still working, and the kitty still happily away at his little resort until tomorrow afternoon. We have completely unpacked, and Lisa even set out all of the Christmas decorations. That’s a little easier to do this year, [...]

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What’s it like in Wyoming? Let us show you.
Kitty couldn’t care less whether we’re going on vacation or not.
Happy holidays from the Tate Mineralogical Museum.
Casper’s one and only cape buffalo.
Mmm…moose.
What’s a diorama?
The world’s smallest carnivore.
Blinky, the three legged pronghorn.
The owl says, “I will f-ing cut you!”
Like a deer in the headlights. (Hunting that way [...]

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My mother — whom I love dearly and who made a delicious Thanksgiving dinner today — read about a billion pages of this here weblog last night. That’s great! She’s more-or-less the person I have in mind when I write about diabetes for people who don’t have it.
Imagine my surprise, when this morning [...]

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Well, dear readers. I’m almost done with this entire month of posting here, and I’m kinda glad that it’s almost over. It’s a bit like having homework again. Although, I have to confess that it’s been a good exercise in writing again.
Lisa and I are in Wyoming. We’ve been here since [...]

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Lisa and I are in Casper, Wyoming. It’s not the place that I was born, but it’s the place where I grew up. It’s a nice little city of between 40,000 and 55,000 people depending on the combined price of oil, natural gas and uranium.
I was once asked as a teenager, “What do [...]

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OMG! Dead stuffed things!!!

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We made it to Wyoming. Here’s the plane we took:

I read a lot on the plane. Saveur — which is written for people with a lot of money and “refined” tastes, but I found it free at work, and it was all about cheeseburgers . . . mmm . . . cheeseburgers. And I “read” Runners World, Bicycling, [...]

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. . . I’m old.
Look what I bought today so that I didn’t have to carry big bottles of vitamins and pills on our trip:

Oy.

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Lisa and I just finished watching the fourth episode of Ken Burns’ six-part documentary The National Parks: America’s Best Idea. I love visiting national parks, and we’re enjoying learning about the history of our parks and the National Parks Service while seeing lots of pretty scenery.
I remember visiting my first national park with my [...]

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I went to the hospital lab this afternoon to get blood drawn for my HbA1c test, anticipating my endocrinology appointment in a couple weeks. (We’re going to Wyoming next week, and I hate having to rush the results.)
For those who don’t know, blood glucose sticks to red blood cells. The more blood sugar [...]

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Bilingual people do something called “context switching,” when they change from one language to another. It’s kind of fascinating to watch. I think we people with diabetes perform our own form of almost seamless context switching as we go through our day. Diabetes isn’t always on my mind, but it’s never far [...]

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Thanks to diabetes, I carry around a lot of stuff. All of it is important to have with me, but I never know exactly when I’m going to need all of it. On more than one occasion, I’ve had to leave work for something important that I was missing, so now I just [...]

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In my most recent post I mentioned the matter of an on-going debate over the proper target for HbA1c values. I went back and listened again to the debate at this year’s EASD conference on the “right” A1c target. (You can find it by starting at the EASD webcast page and searching for “Berger”.)
The [...]

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