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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Here’s a packed newsletter from the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research: The Fox Focus Spring-Summer 2016. It’s chock full of interesting and important news on many angles that
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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: a fantastic 9-minute remix of Nina Simone‘s version of
The Afternoon Sun This room, how well I know it. Now they’re renting it, and the one next to it, as offices. The whole house has become an office building
This morning I read a NY Times opinion piece and a New Yorker short story, both of which focus on growing old while having Parkinson’s. The NY Times article (“Aging in the
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I’ve decided to create yet another category for this Parking Suns blog site: the Parkinson Pantheon. It will feature stories and news items about Parkies who are pushing the boundaries
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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
Throwback Thursdays Art Read More »
For some knowledgeable people, it’s mere speculation to say that Hitler had Parkinson’s disease. This clip from a program on the Smithsonian Channel seems to conclude that the PD diagnosis is correct.
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In the past week I collected two startling and fun pages out of our 1st Grade students’ poetry journals. First, a poem by a boy who’s very much into writing
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Michael Kinsley’s hot new book about Parkinson’s disease and old age in general (Old Age: A Beginner’s Guide) is witty, informative, provocative and a lot of fun. Many of the
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