Sorry I have been incommunicado for a while. Life does have a way of messing with you and you just have to learn to roll with the punches sometimes.

Virginia Woolf famously named a book "A Room of One's Own" and extolled the need for privacy. And of course Jesus talked about entering your "private room" in ordered to pray. Well, for the first time in my life I do have a room of my own...or rather three rooms. At the age of 52 I'm living on my own for the first time. I had roommates in college...then my relationship with my first partner for 22 years...then roommates again in Brooklyn. I think it is long past time to try living by myself.

This is an exercise in faith for me. The rent is reasonable for a one bedroom in NYC but it is still a stretch for me. I will need to keep a very strict budget. I am hoping the discipline I've developed in my prayer life and diabetes life will help me to live within my means and not need to rely on family to make my bills. I have hope that this can happen with some thought and the help of an app on my phone.

This morning I am grateful for quiet, sunshine, hot coffee and cheap and plentiful berries (three pints of blueberries for 5 bucks at the local grocery...3 quarts of strawberries for the same price.)

Last nights dinner was a chicken cassoullet...will post the recipe tonight. It was delicious and very diabetes friendly.