Twitchy Woman: My Adventures with Parkinson's

The last 2 summers, a pair of Mourning Doves has chosen a hanging planter on our patio to be their nest. They lay their eggs, usually 1 or 2, and sit on them until they hatch. A few days later, they are gone. Mourning Doves tend to mate for life and share responsibility for sitting on the eggs. We know they are back when we hear their distinctive mating call “cooOOoo-wo...

Illustration from ParkinsonsDisease.net

Yesterday, I saw that an article I wrote in 2022 for ParkinsonsDis...

“It is as though the part of the brain that sends out invitations to participate in life has temporarily misplaced the guest list”

Carly Simon

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This week, we learned that singer/songwriter Carly Simon was diagnosed with Parkinson’s Disease. The Grammy award-winning artis...

For the last few years we have taken our children and grandchildren on vacation somewhere in the US. This time we opted for an Alaskan cruise. We arrived in rainy Anchorage on Wednesday. It had been raining there for 2 weeks straight. We must have done something right to please the Rain gods, because the rain was reduced to little more than a drizzle and was gone by this morn...

Does this happen to you? You leave your home to go somewhere and immediately remember that you forgot something. So you go back to your house, unlock the door and retrieve whatever it was that you forgot. Now you head back out, only to remember something else that you forgot. The problem here is that you may be halfway down the street. Do you turn around and go back to the ho...