Saturday, December 31, 2011

The Jigsaw Puzzle and Three Lessons Learned about Parkinson's Disease

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It appeared on the family room coffee table a few days before Christmas. The mystery was born as a jumble of a thousand uniquely-shaped piec...
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Saturday, December 24, 2011

The Importance of Cribbage at Christmas

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"15-2, 15-4, 15-6 and a pair is 8", he announced as he moved his red peg eight holes ahead on the oval track of the cribbage board...
Sunday, December 18, 2011

When Failure Is Good

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Tonight, year-end deadlines gather and perch in my thoughts, impatient like Hitchcock's "Birds" on nearby power lines, ready t...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

The Moon and Medical Miracles

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Despite being 12 noon, the temperature hovered just above 0°C outside the hospital main entrance. It was Friday. The week was nearly over....
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Saturday, December 3, 2011

150 Days to the Trip of a Lifetime

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It was 1967. The world exposition was in Montréal. And I was there. I had never been so far away. I knew it was 2700 miles (4300 km) from my...
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Friday, November 25, 2011

The Mask

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The flesh-colored, latex mask felt like a thicker version of the black, plastic masks we wore as kids while playing Zorro, brandishing our h...
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Sunday, November 20, 2011

The Problem with Being You

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I had mistaken the soprano-like bird calls as coming from small hawks or even smaller songbirds that had failed to migrate south for the win...
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