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Throwback Thursdays Art

May 7, 2015 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Throwback Thursdays Art | Bruce | 5 Comments

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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New Website Seeks Your Personal Story

May 6, 2015 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Other Diseases, Other People's Stories, Parkinson's Disease | Bruce | 2 Comments

Former Massachusetts first lady Ann Romney and friends have kicked off a new website where people with Parkinson’s disease, multiple sclerosis, Lou Gehrig’s disease and other neurological disorders can post their

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Parking Suns’ Corona

May 6, 2015 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Jokes | Bruce | Leave a Comment

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Found: California’s Missing Water

May 6, 2015 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Jokes, Parkinson's Disease | Bruce | 1 Comment

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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Why I Love My School

May 5, 2015 | Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, Caleb Gattegno, Other People's Stories | Bruce | Leave a Comment

A colleague who works in our kindergarten recently wrote the following about an experience with one child (name changed): Worked with Oliver on beginning sounds of words (something he and a

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Yoga Balancing Poses: One-Sided Difficulty

May 3, 2015 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Parkinson's Disease, Physical Exercise | Bruce | 1 Comment

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

May 2, 2015 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Jokes, Parkinson's Disease | Bruce | 6 Comments

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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Throwback Thursdays Art

April 30, 2015 | Enriched Environment, Throwback Thursdays Art | Bruce | 4 Comments

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

April 26, 2015 | Enriched Environment, Poetry | Bruce | 5 Comments

I’ll tell you how the sun rose,— A ribbon at a time. The steeples swam in amethyst, The news like squirrels ran.   The hills untied their bonnets, The bobolinks

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Delay Cognitive Decline: Learn a 2nd Language!

April 25, 2015 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Parkinson's Disease, Research, Uncategorized | Bruce | 2 Comments

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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Bruce Ballard

Bruce Ballard

My name is Bruce Ballard. I started this website in February, 2015, to promote an “enriched environment” for people with Parkinson’s disease, including myself. Enjoy!

I'm an official blogger for the 2016 World Parkinson Congress (Portland, Oregon, USA) and the 2019 World Parkinson Congress (Kyoto, Japan). Click on the logo to learn more!

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