Plunge off a cliff? Or both? Do we experience lots of unpredictable highs and lows when we develop Parkinson’s? Lows, yes; not so sure about highs. For many of us (including me), it’s normal, normal, normal, and suddenly I’m at the bottom of a canyon, looking up helplessly for a rescue helicopter to appear. My …
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Parky Conversations: Podcast Coming Soon!
Parky Conversations: Let’s Talk About Parkinson’s In the next few weeks, you will embark on a learning adventure, featuring all sorts of things about this very weird disease called Parkinson's. I will be hosting a podcast that I hope will fascinate, and answer some of your questions about Parkinson's, whether you have the disease, you're …
Wisdom, wit , and woo hoo!!
I have a new gig! Should I call myself Andi Brown Enterprises? I type the name of my alleged new company, then chuckle at my own foolishness, as there is no such entity. Nor do I want there to be. I desire neither the big responsibility, fancy title or, especially, the workload such “enterprises” might …
And the Winner is…
Not me! If you missed my last post, I was invited to audition for a public service announcement on Parkinson’s, to be filmed this very weekend in Toronto. How cruel thou wast, thou agent in the business of show. Thou informed me that thou hadst to engage a citizen of the Canadian empire. Methinks the …
Lights, camera, action! (The blog goes Hollywood)
It started when I was ten, it being my showbiz career, which began at Camp Mataponi in Naples, Maine in 1961, when I was plucked from the obscurity of Bunk Three and onto the stage as a rare junior in the Senior BIg Show. Remember little Ronnie Howard as the lisping Winthrop in The Music …
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I’ve Fallen and I Can’t Get Up
We've all seen and probably made fun of the the elderly woman moaning those words on our TV screens. Why not laugh? She has absolutely nothing to do with us, except perhaps as the old lady across the street, the one who never puts out candy on Hallloween. That one. Well, you know what's coming. …
Serendipity, coincidence or both?
Thought for the day: Happiness is two hours in the perfume department at Bloomingdale’s with one of your most fun friends. Serendipity: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way, as in “a fortunate stroke of serendipity.” “There are no coincidences; everything happens for a reason.” Can serendipity and …
Super Bowl Blues
I'm not blue because the Pats aren't playing this year. Or because Tom Brady moved away (I think). Also, is he getting divorced? I'm not sure. Now, try to imagine that a friend of yours is having a party. They've invited all your friends, but not you. That's okay because you told them not to. Because...it's a Super Bowl party. …
A date for Parky
Thought for the day: I announced myself at the front desk at the breast imaging center, informing the receptionist that “I’m here for my manicure.” Once upon a time there was a Parky. For the unitiated, that’s a person with Parkinson’s Disease, PD for short. This particular Parky - yes, she adored alliteration, perhaps a …
Moving and Shaking 