On Vacation!
I’m taking a break for the next two weeks and probably won’t post again until the first week of September. However, one never knows…do one?
Bruce
Swimming the Hudson River
Today, with the support of Parky 1, Parky 2 and Parky 3, I swam across the Hudson River from the city of Newburgh to the town of Beacon. Newburgh and
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Exercise and Anxiety
The New York Times recently recycled an article (“Why Exercise Makes You Less Anxious“) that it had published years ago on the relationship between anxiety and exercise – specifically aerobic
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The Athletic Life: One Aspect
Yesterday I entered the Grimaldo’s One Mile Swim Competition, held on the beach at Coney Island. Things did not go as planned. Let’s tell the story chronologically… The alarm clock
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Help Bruce Swim His Way to a Cure for Parkinson’s!
Summer’s here, and the time is right for dancing in the streets…and swimming long distance open water events to raise funds for the Michael J. Fox Foundation for Parkinson’s Research!
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Swimming Q & A
The above picture, showing me swimming laps in the 2nd lane on the left, appeared in the NY Times in March, 2016, in the real estate section’s article and photo spread
Parkinson’s Ping-Pong Panacea
I’ve written about (click! click! click! click! click!) and have been frequently attending the weekly Parkinson’s night at the nearby Westchester Table Tennis Center. About ten Parkies come each
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Writing in Kindergarten
This week I was in a kindergarten class at my school, sitting next to a girl who was writing in her journal. Her teacher’s instructions were to write anything she
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Drug Regimen Updated Again!
Here’s my latest drug regimen, which my neurologist updated to increase the Clonazepam and Nortriptyline, which should tamp down the anxiety that was ruthlessly ruling (rudely ruining? routinely uprooting?) my
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The Perennial Closet + Yet Another Symptom
Here’s something that happened to me this week. I work in a public charter school in the Bronx, and I was in a 5th Grade science class while the children
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