Hello Gubna!
Justin Bieber getting pulled over in Miami led to me being on a radio show in London England - because that makes sense.
I woke up the other day to Twitter going crazy about J.B.. Later in the morning I was full of thoughts about the Biebs when I remembered, "I have a Huffington Post blog... why am I talking to myself about this?". The next day the producer of the Iain Dale show on LBC, London's Biggest Conversation, was asking me to come on the air and talk about role models. I was just vacuuming and doing the laundry, so what the hell - right!?
Here's how that went...
My Justin Bieber thoughts are on Huffington Post
Image via www.thehollywoodgossip.com
from HuffPost: "Parents of young children may find Justin's behavior to be not so different from what they see in their own home. He doesn't know where to pee, writes on the walls with his crayons and lacks the mental sophistication to be concerned for his own welfare. In short, Justin needs a diaper, a timeout and a parent to put those foam bumpers on the sharp corners in his life. He is a mess, and his decisions seem to get worse every time I look up and see his name on my Twitter feed."
Huffington Post Live: feat. Me
I was on Huffington Post Live this afternoon for their 'Family Friday' segment.
The topics:
How do you deal with a defiant child?
Do you consider yourself to be your children's favorite parent?
and we talked about that guy on Tumblr who left a bunch of Post-It notes for his wife.
Diabetes Awareness on Huffington Post
Every November we celebrate Diabetes Awareness Month - is celebrate the right word? Anyway, there's nothing but blue circles as far as the eye can see, just as long as your eye can't see beyond the diabetes online community. After November ends you can be assured that there will be blog posts written that use phrases like, "We are just talking to ourselves" and even more that indicate that the choir is preaching to itself. We get sad that all of our effort didn't break the diabetes conversation wide open and we wonder why the NFL isn't wearing blue for diabetes?
Sound familiar?
I've been working behind the scenes to get real DOC based diabetes conversations/stories into mainstream media. It's a little too early to talk about a radio interview that looks like it will happen next month, but I can tell you today about one of my blog pieces that is running on Huffington Post Parents.
'I am not Diabetes' is featured on the Dads front page! Some love, shares and likes can push it to the front of HuffParents. My hope is that one day people will read about diabetes and understand it the way they do breast cancer and other more easily felt/understood diseases. My inclination is that when someone hears you have cancer, they immediately understand the situation that you are in. Diabetes, to the uninitiated is not so self-explanatory, but you know that.
Maybe they just need to feel a day with type I in the way that we do... I for one am happy to share what life is really like with diabetes, if it means bringing awareness to the next level. I'm not suggesting that I am the first person to do this, plenty of intrepid diabetes advocates are working tirelessly to get the word out. I'm just saying that maybe the world can handle hearing about diabetes in the way that we speak to each other about it. I'm not going to try and dress up Arden's story, or make it sound like it's been written by a NY Times reporter. I just want tell our real, raw stories until those football cleats turn blue.
The first step is to get this piece's popularity to a place where HuffPost will consider posting links on there Facebook page and then, hopefully, to the frontage of HuffParents. Please take a second, to like, share and comment so we can show the mainstream that the DOC has a voice that others would be interested in knowing more about.
'I Am Not Diabetes' on Huffington Post.
* I am not compensated monetarily for my writing on Huffington Post. They do provide a link to my book on my author page.
