Here you'll find projects I'm working on to bring my work to a broader audience, as well as some interesting developments.
New Book - This year I'm writing a book for Da Capo Publishing that will debunk diabetes myths. With the help of an extraordinary group of diabetes experts, I'll be clearing up a lot of confusion about diabetes - what it is, how it works, is it genetic, if my parents, brothers and cousins all got it does it mean I will too, will it ruin my sex life, is there a diabetic diet, do I need to take my insulin when I'm not eating, etc. This book will share important information, insights, tips personal and patient stories, be a very lively read, and help bring diabetes a little farther out of the closet. Expect it in book stores sometime next year.
DiabetesbyDesign - Just something I'm tinkering around with, as a former advertising copywriter I couldn't resist. This is how I'd like to see diabetes portrayed - young & fresh. Let's loose the meter, the guilt and the drudgery already.
The ABCs Of Loving Yourself With Diabetes. This is my pride and joy. A book I spent 2007 writing and illustrating. Inspirational "how-to" essays that inspire improved diabetes management coming from an entirely new perspective -- that of using our positive emotions like joy, strength, courage, creating a more meaningful life and pride to energize us toward better management. Check the abcbook page of this web site for when it will be available. Expect to have copies in hand late January, which will be made available on Amazon.
Tucson, Arizona - One must either be mad to go to Tucson in July, (today's local forecast 106°), or have found a book agent passionate about bringing her work to the public. Both appear to be true.
Mt. Sinai Journal of Medicine - Researching, with Helaine Ciporen, clinical social worker at Mt. Sinai's pediatric endocrinology and diabetes division, the impact of trauma on patients, families and care when one first receives a diagnosis of diabetes.
JDRF Article - Writing an article for JDRF's ChapterNews Fall newsletter. You'll either read about my interview with Dr. Susan Guzman of the Behavioral Diabetes Institute discussing the pitfalls of perfection while managing diabetes or my first 'real people' interview, a couple whose son developed type 1 at two and a half years old and spent their first hospital night at an uptown New York City hospital while the staff ran downtown. It happened on 9/11.