Doing the Right Thing
Today I visited the classroom of one of our 1st Grade teachers. Let’s call her Mrs. Dovetail. She was busy organizing her students into small groups, each group working on […]
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Two Sonnets: Light and Dark
Both mediocre… The Hudson River flows into the sea. The tide thrusts back with all its mighty power. Swim a river race and you will see the current’s back-and-forth is
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Lounging at the Waldorf: Broadway Throwback
I had such a great, inspiring time at the Michael J. Fox Foundation research roundtable at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel this weekend that I couldn’t resist posting this segment from
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Lounging at the Waldorf: Parkinson’s Research Update
I was fortunate to attend a Parkinson’s research roundtable at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in Manhattan this weekend, sponsored by the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research. Here are
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The Sun in Poetry
In a Breath To the Williamson Brothers High noon. White sun flashes on the Michigan Avenue asphalt. Drum of hoofs and whirr of motors. Women traipsing along in flimsy clothes
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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Can You Drive With Parkinson’s?
I recently posted a sonnet that I wrote after I passed my annual driving test. One of my blog’s frequent viewers, Beverly, asked the following: Is the driving test required by
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Coming Out at Work
The Michael J. Fox Foundation once again came out with a great document…this time about coming out at work with your PD diagnosis. To download, click here: Sharing Your PD
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Update: Greg Grindley’s Brain Surgery
About two weeks ago, I blogged about the upcoming, live-on-TV brain surgery that fellow Parkie Greg Grindley was about to undergo on the National Geographic channel. Mental Floss, the publication that
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What’s Wrong With This Picture?
If you need to carry around in your purse or backpack the pills you must take over the course of a day, beware of products like this. I bought this
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