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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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 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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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
There’s been an incredible output of articles on Muhammad Ali‘s death, and now I sense a shift in the world regarding how we understand Parkinson’s disease. Plenty of news stories
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As an undergraduate lit major, I read a lot about iambic pentameter. Ten beats per line, alternating weak with strong: weak strong weak strong weak strong weak strong weak strong Shakespeare’s sonnets
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This post is titled “Strange Brew” (a terrific classic rock number by Cream) because for the past three weeks I’ve had a cold/lung infection and couldn’t exercise, which resulted in
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
Throwback Thursdays Art Read More »
Every Sunday now, Parking Suns posts a YouTube music video about the sun. I was going to post something upbeat today but changed my mind when I learned that Muhammad
I haven’t exercised for about two weeks because of a nasty cold that settled in my lungs and lurked there for like forever. I tried going to the gym two