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Without further adieu, we present a true holiday classic: It's a Wonderful Life. That is, if George Bailey had type 1 diabetes.

We pick up at the dramatic conclusion as a harsh wind dies down and a soft, gentle snow begins to fall upon Bedford Falls.

GEORGE: I want to live again. I want to live again. Please, God, let me live again.

BERT: Hey, George! George! You all right?

George backs away and gets set to hit Bert again.

GEORGE: Now get out of here, Bert, or I'll hit you again! Get out!

BERT: What the Sam Hill you yelling for, George? Wait a minute. Are you having one of your diabetic episodes again? Mary warned me that if I found you, you might be actin' all belligerent-like.

GEORGE: (astonished) Bert, you know me? You know I have diabetes?

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The poem/song Auld Lang Syne is a toast to the departing year written by Robert Burns in 1788. I think that's a lovely sentiment.  In that spirit, I'd like to salute my health in 2008.

2008 was a good year as far as diabetes.  My A1C is stable, and regular exercise seems to help level out the glucose rollercoaster.  I weigh just 1 pound more than last New Year's.  That sounds more stable than reality - up as much as 15 pounds, down as much as 10.  

My endocrinologist's office switched me to six months between visits from three.   It's a good sign, with most conditions, if your doctor wants to see you less.  I'll be seeing them this month, as a matter of fact.

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A man is not dead until he is forgotten. -- African proverb

Saturday night, the vice-president of our Friends of Faire group delivered a well-worded "toast to the immortal memory", in which he named Robert Burns "the Bard of Scotland"  in the way that Shakespeare is "the Bard of England" (not to mention most of the rest of the English-speaking world!). As our festivities were dedicated to a member who had recently and unexpectedly died, her life was also celebrated in this toast, and her passing, mourned.

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"Pot luck" has been on my mind as my Friends of Faire group prepares for its annual Burns Night, and with it, the close of the winter holiday season.

While most of the United States population assumes that "the holiday season" starts with Thanksgiving (the fourth Thursday in November) and lasts until New Year's Day (or if New Year's is on a Sunday, January 2nd), for some of us the season may begin as early as Samhain (Hallowe'en), or last until Epiphany, Eastern Orthodox Epiphany, Imbolc (Groundhog Day)... or Burns Night.

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