WYSIWYGabetes
This morning, I read an article about “old school blogging” and the power of sharing personal stories. Whenever anyone complains about social media or the Internet, I always think of the diabetes community and how it’s mostly remained this stronghold of support, kindness, and kindred spirits doing their best to live with a challenging chronic illness. I like that about our corner of the Internet. It really tries to use social media for social good.
For fourteen years, I wrote SixUntilMe.com to help me process the mental load of diabetes, and to forge connections with the global diabetes community. Writing here really helped me make sense of diabetes, making it easier to live with this disease.
As a throwback to the days of 2005, when I started blogging and had to code my own website using a WYSIWYG (what you see is what you get) HTML editor, I wanted to share some space here on Six Until Me – I’m calling it WYSIWYGabetes (pronounced “weh-see-wig-a-beet-eez”). It’s a way to use this somewhat dusty URL for good, instead of it sitting around being all sad and empty.
Do you have an essay you’d like to share? A blog post you’d like to write but you don’t feel like creating a whole blog? Do you have a poem, or a question for the community, or something you need to get off your islets? You can submit your essays to kerri @ sixuntilme dot com. Comments will be open on posts (unless you’d prefer not to have comments) and you can submit as often as you’d like. You can also decide to have the post be password-protected, and you can share the password with whoever you’d like. You can include images, if you’d like. You can share whatever diabetes thoughts that are rolling around in your brain.
I have no idea if this is a good idea. It could be chaotic. It could be cathartic. It could be poignant. It could be emotional. It could be weird. It could be brief. It could be awesome.
No matter what, it could totally be fun.
I hope to hear from you!
