The Write Stuff
Here’s a great 1st person account of living with Parkinson’s disease and adapting to all the changes. The writer, Abbot Gleason, was a history professor at Brown and a tennis […]
Other People’s Stories
Happy New Year from Parking Suns!
I hope everyone has a swell 2016! Meanwhile, Dumbo the elephant drank a lot of alcohol so you don’t have to on New Year’s Eve! Enjoy this hallucinogenic, over-the-top Disney
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Parky Power in Politics
The New York Times reports that Richard Brown, a New York City politician with Parkinson’s disease, has been running unopposed as Queens District Attorney through the past six elections, even though
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Vladimir Putin? Parkinson’s Disease?
Note to my Parkingsuns Readers: I posted this blog in 2015, so speculation about Putin having PD had already begun. Now, in 2022, it’s surfacing again. ********** Click here to
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Pre-K Holy Mackerel Follow Up!
A few days ago I blogged about how two students in our Pre-Kindergarten class can read shockingly well. I returned to their classroom today to investigate further. Their teacher (Ms.
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Pre-K Holy Mackerel!
Our school has a Pre-Kindergarten class, and until recently I stopped in only occasionally to marvel at the scene. However, the other day their teacher (“Ms. Preakness“) and I took
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Book Blurb: My Degeneration
I just finished the graphic novel “My Degeneration: A Journey Through Parkinson’s” by Peter Dunlap-Shohl. I read it on the train yesterday and today, and now am sorting through all
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Gearing Up for Portland! 4th World Parkinson Congress!
Over the next few weeks I’ll be upgrading the Parking Suns website to concentrate more on the upcoming World Parkinson Congress in Portland, Oregon (Sept 20-23, 2016). Once the new year
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Trumping Trump
Donald Trump is ahead in the polls these days (that’s “ahead” as one word, but with his trademark fright wig, it’d also work as two: “a head”), so I thought I’d
The Marshall Islands Are Disappearing
Today’s New York Times reports that the rising sea levels due to global warming are soon going to submerge the Marshall Islands. I lived on the Marshall Islands for four
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