All In The Family
I may dabble in poetry and other forms of writing, but my grandfather, John Frederick Ballard, was a playwright on Broadway, and now my niece, Gwynn Ballard, who just graduated from […]
How Many Times Can You Skydive – In 12 Hours?
Q: How many times can you jump out of an airplane and parachute to earth – in twelve hours? To raise awareness of and money for Parkinson’s disease? A: One
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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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Kayagum Sanjo: 1st Try, 1st Three Minutes
Here’s a short video of me playing the opening section of kayagum sanjo (가야금 산조). The instrument is called the kayagum; I studied it when I lived in Korea. Sanjo
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Sunny Sundays!
In celebration of all things sunny, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week’s entry: Bob Marley‘s “Sun is Shining” – performed by The
Kindergarten Reading Pandemonium
Actually, this started in our pre-K class. Six of the pre-K kids read very well now, and I work with them and their teacher, Ms. Velez, once a week on
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Harry McMurtry: New Addition to the Parkinson Pantheon!
Harry McMurtry has had Parkinson’s disease since 2005, but that hasn’t stopped him from walking all the way from New York City to his hometown in Toronto, Canada. He’s walking
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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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Parkinson’s or Davening?
The recent New Yorker fiction issue has a short story by Jonathan Safrar Foer, “Maybe It Was the Distance,” which opens with this line: “Well, now I’ll have an answer,” Irv
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Sunny Sundays!
In celebration of all things sunny, Parking Suns now features every Sunday a different YouTube music clip about the sun! This week’s entry combines the sacred with the profane. Someone at MTV