Kevin

Excess as an art form

Photo by Myriam Zilles on Unsplash

I’ve known three people who lived with diabetes. One was my childhood best friend Bob, who one day was “normal” and the next “had diabetes.” That was when I first learned that people with diabetes don’t typically die, not right away, at any rate. They live with it.

For years after normal-Bob became diabetic-Bob, we drank cans of Tab and other sugarless sweets as well as lots of fresh fruit…