Summer Break
I’ve been off-line the past few days, as my husband and I spent a long weekend with friends up in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and I intentionally did not bring my computer. […]
What’s It Like Having Parkinson’s II?
I recently blogged some simulation activities for non-Parkies who ask: What’s it like having Parkinson’s disease? Click here for a surprise answer. If anyone wants to try this with me, leave a
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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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What’s It Like Having Parkinson’s?
On a recent conference call with some of the other official bloggers for next year’s World Parkinson Congress, we briefly discussed how to simulate Parkinson’s disease for people who don’t
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Do I Sound Gay?
You don’t have to answer that; I already know. People have told me, sometimes angrily. For example, in one heated family argument many years ago, a family member snapped, “You don’t
The Sun in Poetry
You, Andrew Marvell And here face down beneath the sun And here upon earth’s noonward height To feel the always coming on The always rising of the night: To feel
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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A Life in Sin (emet): Yes, I Can!
I’ve been on a low dosage of Sinemet (carbidopa/levodopa) for about a month now. One of the payoffs is that I can use a can opener again. Until I started
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Plan B
At age 54, Sherri Wolf was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease. It didn’t really stop her. She couldn’t water ski anymore, but she could certainly tend her garden. “Life is all
Light Reading
Here’s a short, light-hearted first person account of some of the sillier things that happen when you get Parkinson’s disease. The first sentence sets the mood: It is either denial