Check out “Lemonade Life” - what Salon.com calls a “very good, smart” read about living with diabetes. The name refers to writer Allison Blass making lemonade of the health lemons life has handed her.

Meet the legally blind director of the planetarium in Nashville, Tenn., who for 19 years has roamed the galaxies charting star maps. “Everyday,” she says, “I get paid to go to space and it’s a blast.”