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How Many Times Can You Skydive – In 12 Hours?

June 24, 2016 | Enriched Environment, National Parkinson Foundation, Other People's Stories, Parkinson Pantheon!, Parkinson's Disease | Bruce

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

June 23, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Throwback Thursdays Art | Bruce | 7 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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Kayagum Sanjo: 1st Try, 1st Three Minutes

June 19, 2016 | Bruce, Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes | Bruce | 1 Comment

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!

June 19, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Sunny Sundays | Bruce

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

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Kindergarten Reading Pandemonium

June 18, 2016 | Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, Bruce, Caleb Gattegno, Enriched Environment, Jokes, Other People's Stories, SubTLE | Bruce | 1 Comment

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!

June 16, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories, Parkinson Pantheon!, Parkinson's Disease, Physical Exercise | Bruce | 1 Comment

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

June 16, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Throwback Thursdays Art | Bruce | 7 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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Parkinson’s or Davening?

June 12, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Other People's Stories | Bruce

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!

June 12, 2016 | Enriched Environment, Non-Pharmacological Fixes, Sunny Sundays | Bruce | 1 Comment

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

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Parkinson’s Disease, Post-Muhammad Ali

June 11, 2016 | Other People's Stories, Parkinson's Disease, Research | Bruce

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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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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