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I’ve been nominated!

On May 20, 2025May 23, 2025 By Andi BrownIn Uncategorized21 Comments

Check it out! I have been nominated for an Academy Award....oops, that's the unfiltered part of my brain that you're not supposed to see. In truth, I've been nominated for an International Women's Podcasting Award (Click on the down arrow in the catrgory "Moment of Factual Clarity) by Everybody Media. an innovative, women-led media company …

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Challenges challenges

On December 10, 2024December 10, 2024 By Andi BrownIn Uncategorized3 Comments

The Parky Conversations podcast provides excellent holiday party chit/chat material. Listen to even just one episode and you’ll be the most interesting person at every gathering. ************ We all know that challenging our brains and our bodies is important in maintaining plasticity - the ability to adapt and learn. But when faced with a challenge …

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AITAH or I Feel Guilty, Oh so Guilty

On October 2, 2024 By Andi BrownIn Uncategorized

I've been feeling a bit guilty about my blog, and wonder if this mea culpa isn't a bit too little too late. This is the time of year -- Yom Kippur - when Jews ask forgiveness for sins committed during the year. I'm asking now for my fellow Parkies who face challenges more disabling than …

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Drill baby drill

That’s what I’ll tell the surgeon some months hence as he prepares to inject a virus into the command center of my very essence, that is, my brain. Yes, the clinical trial testing a gene therapy’s efficacy in slowing disease progression in Parkinson’s Disease is on, baby! In my typical Only Know What You Need…

Andi Brown's avatar by Andi Brown March 17, 2026

Lean in…to lethargy

I woke thinking….Hmmm. Well I probably wake thinking hmmmm every day. Today’s hmmm translates as “how can I waste house-bound guilt-free time today? But is there really such a thing as wasted time anyway? I mean we spend time. We use time., sometimes wisely sometimes not. Either way, those five minutes are gone forever.. What’s…

Andi Brown's avatar by Andi Brown February 23, 2026February 24, 2026

I’ve Flunked Meditation

I’d just concluded a delightful four-day visit with an old friend in Atlanta.  We’ve known each other since we met at Camp.Mataponi in Naples, Maine at the age of ten.  We were fast friends for all our nine years at camp, lost touch for decades, and miraculously reconnected about fifteen years ago.  Our lives are…

Andi Brown's avatar by Andi Brown February 11, 2026March 20, 2026
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