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		<title>Getting Creative to &#8220;Find a Friend&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 May 2012 03:57:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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The first time I signed up for a blogging event, one that stipulated I blog every day for a month, I succeeded.  Since then though, every time I sign up for any sort of blog-everyday-for-however-long event, things unravel quickly.   Most recently, and most lamely, I signed up for WEGO Health Activist Writer’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Watching the Window Close</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 13 May 2012 05:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s Mother’s Day.  Mother’s Day used to be all about celebrating my mom, and I never conceived of it as anything else.  I can’t say when it occurred to me that it was something more than that.  My evolving conception of it has been a few years in the making.  As [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Handful of HOPE</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Mar 2012 17:39:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[There&#8217;s an initiative on Facebook called Write Hope on Your Hands for Diabetes.  Technically, it&#8217;s supposed to be hope for a cure, and while I do hope and believe there will be a cure someday, I have no delusions that I&#8217;ll ever see it.  It&#8217;s better for me to accept that this is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Value of Art</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Feb 2012 05:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you&#8217;re reading this, you likely know something to the effect that I&#8217;m a type 1 diabetic and an art therapist whose professional and advocacy work is directed towards helping people with diabetes through art.  Towards that goal, I facilitate Diabetes Art Day and the World Diabetes Day Postcard Exchange, I have a small [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Mirror, Mirror</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:18:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Complications]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEGO Health has initiated the Diabetes InfoGaps Program, which includes a survey about “missing” diabetes topics as a way to identify and then generate information and thoughtful discussion about subjects that people feel haven’t had a fair share of the spotlight.  I encourage you to go take it – speak up, be heard!
I started [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Two Years</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jan 2012 19:27:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is the second anniversary of my father’s suicide.  I’ve spent the last year thinking I would go to Texas to see some of my family, be in my hometown, and visit the grave as I had done last year, but when Jason and I looked at our finances a couple of weeks ago, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>5 Things that Changed My Life</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2011 03:59:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post is in response to the following prompt provided by the WEGO Health National Health Blog Posting Month:
5 things that changed my life. For better? For worse? List 5 things that changed your life as a patient, caregiver, or Health Activist and how.
Eating Disorder &#038; Depression:  On the surface, I suppose this looks [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy First Blue Friday!</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Nov 2011 05:22:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m late to post, but I wanted to wish everyone a Happy Blue Friday!  If you&#8217;re a DOC&#8217;er, you probably know about Blue Fridays in November.  I know I have some family and friends that occasionally read though, and you might not know about Blue Fridays, an initiative started by my friend Cherise [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Titles of My Future Book</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:59:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[WEGO Health is hosting National Health Blog Posting Month.  Since I&#8217;ve gotten sorely burned out on blogging by participating in NaBloPoMo in the past, signing up for NHBPM is against my better judgment, but I do lots of things against my better judgment so at least I&#8217;m staying true to character.  I think [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy T1Day!</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Nov 2011 03:57:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Lee Ann</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Today is November 1st, the first day of Diabetes Awareness Month, and two weeks until World Diabetes Day on November 14th.  Today is also T1Day, a JDRF initiative to raise awareness about type 1 diabetes.  They want everyone to give the finger to type 1 diabetes, a funny, albeit sassy message, but one [...]]]></description>
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