Here’s a thoughtful meditation on Prince’s death and what it means to David Shaw, an opioid drug abuse counselor who recently was diagnosed with Parkinson’s. I suggest you just read […]
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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: Andréanne St-Louis covers the Beatles’ “I’ll Follow the Sun.”
Here’s another 1st person account of a Parkie who finds that exercise is not optional if you want to remain relatively symptom-free. Jerry Yarov lives in (near?) Columbus, Ohio, and
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We’re talking medical marijuana and a recent NY Times article about some rabbis inspecting a New York State medical marijuana company to certify whether the products are kosher. It sounds like
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Yesterday a 1st Grade teacher and I worked with Mishaun, a boy who is moving very quickly through everything we give him. I gave him this page from a writing
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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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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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