Walking Uptown Minus Your Next Dose of Sinemet Your legs give out…and then Manhattan grows. The blocks get longer…stretch ahead unbroken… You limp and know that all the city knows […]
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My friend, Bob Nelson, who is the bike leg of my triathlon relay team this Sunday, forwarded two excellent New York Times articles about the benefits of biking for Parkies.
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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In March, 2003, shortly after my 50th birthday, I climbed to the top of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest peak, courtesy of my extravagantly generous and fun-loving friend, Bill Harwood. The
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Appointment w/ My Neurologist “Have you fallen yet?” she always asks, In her gorgeous scarf and white lab coat. “Been feeling dizzy? Spit caught in your throat? Frustrated that you can’t do
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Evening The light passes from ridge to ridge, from flower to flower— the hepaticas, wide-spread under the light grow faint— the petals reach inward, the blue tips bend toward the
On the weekend of September 26th and 27th, I’ll enter two triathlons to raise money for and awareness of dystonia and Parkinson’s disease. All donations will go to the Michael J.
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The picture above shows me at the Olympics Aquatic Center in Mexico City in 1971. I was a high school student in Mexico and on my school’s swimming team. On
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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 are two fascinating articles (bingo! bingo!) about Dr. Maria De Leon, a movement disorder specialist (i.e., a neurologist who specializes in diseases like Parkinson’s) who about ten years ago
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