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Jeffrey Lash: Catching air, crushing diabetes!
I want to thank Jeffrey for sharing yet another trip report and his photos with all of us. I met Jeffrey through our Facebook Page where I learned that he has reconnected to climbing at age 32 after a...
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I see a lot of outrage regarding the way that the public percieves diabetes, most recently due to the article that Bill Cosby wrote for the NY Times. Sometimes I feel like I am missing the outrage...
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Diabetes and climbing in…
One of the first things thoughts I had when I completed my 365th consecutive day of climbing, and Project365 was ‘what next?’ I actually had a great deal of anxiety in the weeks following, trying to...
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Devils Tower
Devils Tower is a magical place–a lot of who we are today was spawned on the cliffs of this magnificent piece of stone. It was my first proper multipitch climb and it is where I became interested in...
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Adversity: the greatest teacher
I’d been up devils tower before; twice. The first time in 2009 was a long day, but at that time, I was new to climbing and setting a tedious pace was to be expected. Just prior to Project 365 in 2011 I...
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Paradigm shift
I haven’t blogged in a while. Some of you may not have noticed, while still others may be thankful for a vacation from my self indulgent, esoteric ramblings. The reality is that I have been feeling...
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The will to LEAD
This past week I have been on the road promoting LivingVertical and sharing about our upcoming LEAD initiative at JDRF Type One Nation events. Part of this process has involved distillation of the...
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Independence.
Change comes slowly. But with progress, it DOES occur. I’ll cut to the chase because this isn’t another rambling post about one of my existential crises. Yet. Maybe in a few paragraphs…for now it’s an...
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No failure, just change.
From the beginning I had to earn to climb: my harness, my belay, the rock. It wasn’t until the tent sat staked to the ground, our therma-rests were left to expand, and the delicious scent of burning...
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So this just happened…
On Friday, which happened to be World Diabetes Day, something pretty significant in my life just happened. I got a job. I have long struggled with walking the line between passion and employment and it...
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