Resilience
The Ocean
My close colleague and friend, Claudia, who happens also to be a neurologist, reassures me as we Facetime one another.
Making Music
“One of my regrets in life is that I never learned to play a musical instrument.”
Unfinished
The canvas may not be blank, but it nevertheless invites us to work on it...
The Long Hallways of Illness
As we sit together in the lobby, watching other cancer patients and their people come and go, I have an even deeper sense of the weight of illness.
Playing Offense
I have come to see that, with Parkinson’s, most of the time we play defense
Commencement
It’s a Saturday morning, the day of Commencement, and I stand before the crowd gathered to honor E4Texas graduates.
Shield Walls
Our goal is to survive the next battle and fall back if needed to fight another day.
Introducing “The Only Day We Have”
In this video, filmmaker Vanessa Reiser and I talk about our forthcoming documentary...
The Button
Before Parkinson’s, my fingers and hands worked better than they do now.
Darkness and Light
We get in the car and start the one-mile trip home as the new day’s sun reveals a now clear sky.
Riding the Wave
He floats on his back in the green glassy lake, his feet sticking out of the water and his toes gripping the rubber tread on the slick fiberglass board.
A Conversation with Lisa Keefauver, MSW — Grief and Empathy Activist!
"Our work in grief is to rewrite and live into a new story we are co-creating."
Miraculous Things
I can control a lot in my world, in my life, but not everything.
Staring into the Fire
It’s just before 4:00 pm on a cold, wintry day in Austin...
An Awful Lot to Live For
When I meet someone with Parkinson’s, I immediately feel a kinship.
Making It
I have thought a lot about Cooper and his father in the weeks since that Saturday morning encounter.
A Parkinson’s Anniversary Letter to My Daughters
It’s hard to believe it’s been four years since my Parkinson’s diagnosis...
My Favorite Day
When do I get back to that life? When everything was so normal.
Telling My Parents I Have Parkinson’s Disease
How do you tell the people you love most that you have a progressive neurologic disease?
Stepping Up to the Plate
Ken and I are teammates on our sixth grade baseball team and he is awful at baseball.