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Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 I've been sucked into twitter. Very recently, so I don't have much up there yet, but if you are on twitter and want to keep up that way, I am andrea_mcd . I know some of ... Read on »

A good time to say goodbye by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 I'm working on a new blog. I've decided to embrace the bloglines glitch and use it as an opportunity to build fresh. I haven't really been enjoying the mommy-blogging or per ... Read on »

Strike Update by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 The strike is still on-going and the university administration has confirmed that classes will definitely not resume before Jan 5, making the strike at least two months long ... Read on »

a milestone, of sorts by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 I haven't written about Frances's size much recently; ironically, that's because it's more of an issue than it used to be. Frances is known by everyone at her school, in eve ... Read on »

Sick Day by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 I don't know why I call in sick for Frances, ever. Sure, she has a bad cold with a nasty cough. She is also bubbling over with energy and I can barely get her to sit sti ... Read on »

with role models like these, who needs violent video games? by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 http://blog.macleans.ca/2008/12/04/a-lot-of-fear-and-anger-and-hatred/ I'm glad to see we've already gone so far as the destruction of property (firebombs in BC). Maybe w ... Read on »

On the count of three, breathe by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 There's no point in hiding it. I believe the coalition will be a better government for Canada. Certainly it's more in line with my values, although not with my vote since I ... Read on »

don't mind me by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 I'm just going to sit here, reveling in the thought of the Tories engineering their own downfall through sheer hubris, less than one month after the election that put them i ... Read on »

National Diabetes Month: The Good News Edition by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 Today's A1c (a test measuring average blood sugar) was 6.9 (three months ago it was 7.6; up to about 6.5 is considered normal or non-diabetic). Also, I got the paperwork ... Read on »

Another point in the "lunatic" column by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 The story of Susan Ryan's murder (her husband is charged) makes me sad and angry. So pointless, so preventable, and so little political will. It happens over and over again ... Read on »

To sleep, perchance to dream--of a giant snail-train monster by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 Two nights ago, while sleeping at her father's, Frances dreamed of Frosty the Snowman carrying her onto a refrigerated box-car headed to the north pole. Long before the trai ... Read on »

Meet Freya by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 A warning for anyone who read the story I published a while ago: Freya has not aged well. And a note for everyone: My approach to critiquing fiction is that the author sh ... Read on »

No Fire by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 (I drafted this in August, and something happened today that reminded me of it. Maybe in a few months something else will happen that reminds me of today and you'll get that ... Read on »

a portrait of book addiction by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 Hello. My name is Andrea. I think. I seem to have left my brain somewhere outside of Spadina station this afternoon. It's probably still gibbering about the cold. We went to ... Read on »

Diabetes Awareness Month: The Lazy Manufacturers Edition by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 The only part of the ordeal I remember is throwing up blood in a hospital bed, but according to my parents, when I was three they once gave me two infant tylenols to bring d ... Read on »

One day you'll ask yourself, "Is this Andrea McDowell's blog, or Gwendolyn MacEwen's?" by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 A little of both, maybe. A little of both. Let Me Make This Perfectly Clear Let me make this perfectly clear. I have never written anything because it is a Poem. ... Read on »

Meet Wynne by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 I did promise this, and though I'm sure none of you are likely to care, I figured it's halfway through November, and I'm just over halfway done my NaNoWriMo word count (25.5 ... Read on »

Phonetics by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 I got as far as recording my conversation with Frances while we wrote out her first letter to Santa. It was a monumental event for me: she can spell! She wrote "table"! OK, ... Read on »

Good Fences by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 You share a thin wall with your next-door neighbours, a family consisting of a single mother and at least two children, plus at least one large, loud dog, in a two-bedroom a ... Read on »

Keeping Promises: a writer's manipulation of reader expectations by Andrea M. Healthy Living Professional

Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 2 My next step in this interminable Writing project I've taken on is to take a piece of writing--an actual, published story--and tear it to bits and put it back together again ... Read on »