In the Swim Again
The photo shows me (on the left) when I placed in my age group in one of the many open water swim races I competed in in the Hudson River […]
Bruce
It’s Alive!
A week after starting a low dosage of Sinemet (carbidopa/levodopa), I found myself at work this morning, typing at the computer with both hands! My right hand had been dead
Charter School Update #2
Our 5th Grade has spent the past few weeks reading and writing all kinds of poetry. This week they invited me into their class so they could read some of
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Charter School Update #1
Every morning my school, the Bronx Charter School for Better Learning, broadcasts a 15-minute Morning Meeting show from the office of our principal, Mr. Shubert Jacobs. A handful of students
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Visit Doctor. Start Sinemet. Write Poem.
Yesterday I saw my neurologist, who I think is the brightest star on this planet. We discussed many things, but there were two main outcomes for me. Note: If I’m wrong
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How Am I Doing?
Howdy, folks! As the next post on this blog will mark 100 posts since I started the website in mid-February, I thought I’d pull back a little and ask: How
Prescient?
Just before my husband and I moved out of the city to the suburbs, I saw this Toyota ad on the back of a National Geographic. I cut it out
The Sometimes Tremors
The NY Times has a quasi-humorous – no, a full-fledged humorous – story of a man with Parkinson’s disease whose shop gets burgled. Elias Lifshitz emigrated from Mexico to Manhattan
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Bruce Writes Another Sonnet
My husband became intrigued with the word urchin recently, and he asked me to write a poem using the word. I jumped at the opportunity to write another sonnet, just
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End-of-Life Flicks Follow Up
Just when I thought I was through with intelligent end-of-life discussion, the New York Times’ magazine posts a related article, “The Last Day of Her Life.” It’s about Cornell psychology
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