Q: How many times can you jump out of an airplane and parachute to earth – in twelve hours? To raise awareness of and money for Parkinson’s disease? A: One […]
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Actually, this started in our pre-K class. Six of the pre-K kids read very well now, and I work with them and their teacher, Ms. Velez, once a week on
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Harry McMurtry has had Parkinson’s disease since 2005, but that hasn’t stopped him from walking all the way from New York City to his hometown in Toronto, Canada. He’s walking
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The recent New Yorker fiction issue has a short story by Jonathan Safrar Foer, “Maybe It Was the Distance,” which opens with this line: “Well, now I’ll have an answer,” Irv
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There’s been an incredible output of articles on Muhammad Ali‘s death, and now I sense a shift in the world regarding how we understand Parkinson’s disease. Plenty of news stories
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As an undergraduate lit major, I read a lot about iambic pentameter. Ten beats per line, alternating weak with strong: weak strong weak strong weak strong weak strong weak strong Shakespeare’s sonnets
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Every Sunday now, Parking Suns posts a YouTube music video about the sun. I was going to post something upbeat today but changed my mind when I learned that Muhammad
Here’s a thoughtful meditation on Prince’s death and what it means to David Shaw, an opioid drug abuse counselor who recently was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. I suggest you just read
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Here’s another 1st person account of a Parkie who finds that exercise is not optional if you want to remain relatively symptom-free. Jerry Yarov lives in (near?) Columbus, Ohio, and
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Yesterday a 1st Grade teacher and I worked with Mishaun, a boy who is moving very quickly through everything we give him. I gave him this page from a writing
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