Splendor In The Grass

By Eric Le Roy

Content 18+ As I was riding in the car with my wife yesterday evening, heading for the Dog Shop and the supermarket, there was some pretty cool rap music on the radio. It was rather strange: slow and soft instead of punching at you like a back alley beatdown, but the usual rhyming patterns were there, and as with the best of that genre, you can … Read the rest

Dead Man Walking: How Diabetes Saved My Life

DALL·E 2025 03 19 13 28 46 A metaphorical representation of transformation through hardship_ A person chiseling away at a stone statue of themselves, shaping their body and mind

Content 16+ A hundred years ago, a diagnosis of diabetes was a death sentence. No insulin, no modern medicine, no way out. A slow, painful demise. By that definition, I am a dead man walking. And yet, here I am—stronger, healthier, more alive than I have ever been. It’s a strange paradox: the very thing that should have stolen my life gave it back to me instead.

Before diabetes, I … Read the rest