Prescient?
Just before my husband and I moved out of the city to the suburbs, I saw this Toyota ad on the back of a National Geographic. I cut it out […]
The Sometimes Tremors
The NY Times has a quasi-humorous – no, a full-fledged humorous – story of a man with Parkinson’s disease whose shop gets burgled. Elias Lifshitz emigrated from Mexico to Manhattan
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The Sun in Pottery
Luohan Period: Tang dynasty (618–907) Culture: China Medium: Polychrome sun-baked mud Classification: Tomb Pottery A Luohan is a perfected person who has reached Nirvana. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online
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Yetta Nother …
Yet another authority encourages people with Parkinson’s disease to exercise as a way to slow PD’s progression. Johns Hopkins’ website has a short article titled “Living with Parkinson’s: 5 Ways
Bruce Writes Another Sonnet
My husband became intrigued with the word urchin recently, and he asked me to write a poem using the word. I jumped at the opportunity to write another sonnet, just
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Throwback Thursdays Art
Every Thursday, as part of my personal “enriched environment” initiative, I post a piece of art, usually from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, which recently released online some 400,000 high-resolution
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The Sun in Poetry
Thought for a Sunshiny Morning It costs me never a stab nor squirm To tread by chance upon a worm. “Aha, my little dear,” I say, “Your clan will pay
On the Horizon: World Parkinson Congress
Set your alarm clock for Sept. 20-23, 2016, and book your flight (or hop a van) to Portland, Oregon, for the 4th World Parkinson Congress. It looks tremendously exciting. The
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Whoa! Physical + Cognitive Exercises!
This sounds fantastic: Physical workouts combined with cognitive exercises for people with Parkinson’s disease! Read all about it here. The class, called “ParkinGo,” is taught by Jillian Carson, a former physiotherapist
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Perky Parkie Power!
If you never clicked over to Perky Parkie’s blog, do so now and read her empowering article, “Is Happiness a Choice?” The author, Allison Smith, is a personal trainer and funny
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