My Left Foot
You’d think that once you’re stricken with a devastating illness like Parkinson’s, you’d get a free pass on other medical calamities. But that’s not how life works. Fellow blogger Allison […]
Physical Exercise
“Gotta Keep Moving”
This weekend marks the first ITTF (International Table Tennis Federation) – sanctioned Parkinson’s World Table Tennis Championship, with about 60 ping pong athletes converging on Pleasantville, New York, from over
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The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Parkies
If Stephen Covey’s book, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, sold more than 25 million copies in thirty-eight languages, how far will my blogpost go if I title it
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Get Out Your Ping-Pong Paddles!
The first ever Parkinson’s World Table Tennis Championship, approved by the International Table Tennis Federation, will take place October 11-13, 2019, at the Westchester Table Tennis Center in Pleasantville, NY,
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Announcing: World Parkinson Ping Pong Championship
Announcing the first ever International Table Tennis Federation Parkinson’s World Table Tennis Championship! Where: Westchester Table Tennis Center, 175 Tompkins Avenue, Pleasantville, NY 10570, United States of America (about 1
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Positive Deviancy and Enriched Environment
Positive Deviance with an Enriched Environment Last week I reviewed research that showed that rats and mice raised in an “enriched environment” and then infected with a chemical that gave
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Flailing, Failing, Falling…
At the International Gay and Lesbian Aquatics swim competition last month, I told the timer at my lane that my arms might flail around when I got up on the
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Back in the Swim – Again!
ParkingSuns.com is still on Spring Break, mainly because I’m so busy, even on weekends. For instance, a few weekends ago I competed at a big swim meet in New York
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Teachers College Columbia University: Distinguished Alumni Award
Here I am standing on the stage in the breakfast room at Teachers College Columbia University. Professor Jo Anne Kleifgen, my doctoral dissertation adviser from the 1990s, is reading a
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