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Parkinson’s Ping-Pong Panacea

June 10, 2017 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Parkinson's Disease, Physical Exercise | Bruce | Leave a Comment

I’ve written about (click!  click!  click!  click!  click!) and have been frequently attending the weekly Parkinson’s night at the nearby Westchester Table Tennis Center.   About ten Parkies come each […]

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Throwback Thursdays Art – w/ Update!

June 8, 2017 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Throwback Thursdays Art | Bruce | 3 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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Sunny Sundays!

June 4, 2017 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Sunny Sundays | Bruce | Leave a Comment

In celebration of all things sunny and to promote an enriched environment, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week it’s The Fifth Dimension singing “Aquarius/Let

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“Time” for Parkinson’s

June 4, 2017 | Enriched Environment, Michael J. Fox Foundation, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories, Parkinson Pantheon!, Parkinson's Disease | Bruce | 1 Comment

The online Time magazine has a great article on Margaret Bourke-White, the famous Life magazine photographer who developed Parkinson’s disease in 1953 and fought it tooth and nail so she could

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The Sun in Poetry

June 3, 2017 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Poetry | Bruce | Leave a Comment

Serenade Three paces down the shore, low sounds the lute, The better that my longing you may know; I’m not asking you to come, But—can’t you go? Three words, “I

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Writing in Kindergarten

June 2, 2017 | Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, Bruce, Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories, Poetry, SubTLE | Bruce | Leave a Comment

This week I was in a kindergarten class at my school, sitting next to a girl who was writing in her journal.  Her teacher’s instructions were to write anything she

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Throwback Thursdays Art – w/ Update!

June 2, 2017 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Throwback Thursdays Art | Bruce | 3 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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Drug Regimen Updated Again!

May 28, 2017 | Bruce, Bruce's Meds, Medications, Parkinson's Disease | Bruce | Leave a Comment

Here’s my latest drug regimen, which my neurologist updated to increase the Clonazepam and Nortriptyline, which should tamp down the anxiety that was ruthlessly ruling (rudely ruining? routinely uprooting?) my

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Tweak Your DBS Voltage with Your iPhone!

May 28, 2017 | Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories, Parkinson's Disease, Research | Bruce | Leave a Comment

Paul Detlefsen, age 44, of Iselin, New Jersey, has had Young Onset Parkinson’s disease for eight years.  Like a lot of us!  However, he is the first person to be

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Sunny Sundays!

May 28, 2017 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Sunny Sundays | Bruce | Leave a Comment

In celebration of all things sunny and to promote an enriched environment, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week it’s Hilary Duff and friend frolicking

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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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