Michael J. Fox Does AARP
Or is it “AARP Does Michael J. Fox“? At any rate, AARP The Magazine has a great interview with Fox in its current issue. He talks about how he’s coping […]
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Parkinson Pantheon!
Navin Kumar – Parkie Ping Pong Powerhouse
I’ve blogged recently about a local tennis table center which hosts a weekly night for people with Parkinson’s disease. But now I’ve met, via email, Navin Kumar, a top-ranked ping-pong athlete
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Parkie Ping-Pong: Part 3 and Counting
I’ve blogged twice now (click! click!) about the weekly Parkinson’s night at a local table tennis center, and now there’s more to come. Here’s another news clip about the event
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Reader Response: Have Your Lost Your Mind?
Today I am responding via my six Reader Response Questions to a 2014 New Yorker article by Michael Kinsley, “Have You Lost Your Mind?” Click here to read the background of
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Quelling Tremors One Hand at a Time
The BBC has a terrific video about a computer wizard in London who developed hardware and software that quell Parkinson tremors in the hand of Young Onset Parkie Emma Lawton.
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Parkinson Pantheon Update: Dave Parker
American baseball great Dave Parker was, like me, diagnosed with PD four years ago. The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette just posted an article about how he’s dealing with PD at the four-year mark,
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Parkinson Pantheon Update: Janet Reno
Janet Reno, the first woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General, just passed away from complications arising from Parkinson’s disease. She was diagnosed in 1995, but continued to work long
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Reader Response – Shadow Over My Brain
As I posted earlier, I’m now reviewing books and articles about PD, using a reader response format that I created for students at my school, the Bronx Charter School
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Change #3 After the World Parkinson Congress: Deeper Reporting. Case #1: Yuma Bev
I realized at the recent World Parkinson Congress that I should be reading more books and articles about PD, and that my blog posts could dive more deeply when I
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Sunny Sundays – WPC Edition!
In celebration of all things sunny, Parking Suns features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week’s entry: Bette Midler singing “Sunrise Sunset” from the play Fiddler on
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