Found: California’s Missing Water
Every night when I sleep on my stomach, my husband points out the drool stains on the bed sheet the next morning. If someone will pay my airfare to California, […]
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Parkinson’s Disease
Yoga Balancing Poses: One-Sided Difficulty
If you glance at my physical workout calendar, you’ll see that I often do 60 minutes of stretching exercises at home. These include some yoga balancing poses, especially the Standing
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Parkinson’s Disease: Two Perspectives, Part II
I sometimes publish a “major” post about Parkinson’s disease, and then follow it with a 2nd post of jokes on the same topic. For example, I wrote about constipation, and
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Delay Cognitive Decline: Learn a 2nd Language!
I just attended the 60th Annual Conference of the International Linguistic Association at Columbia University, where the first plenary speaker, Ellen Bialystock, gave a talk titled, “Bilingualism: Consequences for Mind
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Parkinson’s Disease: Two Perspectives
1. This is what I think comes to many people’s mind when they hear that someone has Parkinson’s disease. They envision an elderly person, cloaked in stuffy clothes, confined to a
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Coffee and Parkinson’s Disease
Any way you look at it (here, here, and, um, here…), coffee seems to be a good thing for people with Parkinson’s disease, and for people who don’t have Parkinson’s
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How You Type: Early Indicator of Parkinson’s?
Smithsonian.com reports that MIT researchers believe the way you press the keys when you type might be a predictor of Parkinson’s disease. The issue is not how many words you
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Parkinson’s Poker Face Pays Off Pedagogically
As a teacher trainer in a charter school which uses a particular pedagogy, I find my Parkinson’s poker face pays off. Below are two YouTube clips which show what I
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Parkinson’s Disease: Small Potatoes
Two small potatoes about my life with Parkinson’s disease. Throat catchers: Is it me, is it Parkinson’s disease, or does this happen to everyone? It seems like every time I
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Cruising? Parkinson’s Disease? Old Age?
Strange experience tonight on the New York City subway. I don’t know what to make of it. It was rush hour. I took the #2 express from 14th Street to 42nd Street/Times
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