Wednesday, 3:45 am. My airport chauffeur has arrived. Ooh fun, you’re thinking, maybe like me, associating middle of the night flights with Negronis by the pool, the satisfying thwack of balls being volleyed down at the beach. Um, not exactly. I’m flying from Boston to New York for a PETscan, a requirement for my clinical …
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Adventures in Transportation
A wee bit of background. I'm having surgery on my brain as a participant in a clinical trial for a new gene therapy for Parkinson's. Yes, there will be holes drilled into my brain. No, I won't be awake for it, and it isn't expected to be painful. The study provides what they call "concierge" …
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. …
Moving and Shaking 