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What’s this blog about?
Hello, and welcome to my blog. I have been encouraged by many to keep a blog, and the time has come. I will be sharing excerpts from my book, I Lift My Eyes, advice for people with Parkinson’s and...
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I AM OLD AND I AM BLESSED
I talk to things. Ever since I fell in love with my sweet, funny little dog, I talk to things. I talk to animals as if they could talk back to me. Flowers, too. Roses in particular. “You beautiful...
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What’s In A Name?
Names Shakespeare Never Knew Juanette Merita was the name my mother gave me. Since she was not married, she gave me her last name of Brown, and my sister and I were known as “The Brown Twins.”...
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New Children’s book on the way!!
Libby Farmer and I are so excited to announce that our book, Polly Possum’s Wandering Path, is in final production! We should be able to share it with you in April, as all drafts have been approved.
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Memories of a Backyard Birder
“All I want for Christmas,” I told my husband, Burt, “is a bird feeder and a broom.” Does that sound silly? Well, maybe so, but I got that bird feeder and a new broom. In fact, I got two bird feeders –...
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Trip to Tijuana Orphanage
The youth group of Church of the Valley in Apple Valley, California was going strong in 1983. Some 85 kids from 6th grade through junior college came every Sunday night to worship in song and praise,...
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A Cow Is A Cow – prologue
A Cow is a Cow 5/15/15 Forward “When were you told that you were adopted?” people would ask. “I‘ve known that I was adopted as long as I’ve know that a cow is a cow.” That was always my answer. I...
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A Cow is a Cow – Ruby
A Cow is a Cow Ruby It was ten o’clock on Saturday morning. I proudly wore the dress my mother had just given me for my eighteenth birthday. The doorbell rang. Earlier in the week, after I finished a...
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The Visit
We had been receiving letters in the past few months from Ruby. They said that Ruby had looked for my twin sister and me for 17years; that she had found God; that someone – who wasn’t supposed to –...
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SINGING IS GOOD FOR YOU
Parkinson’s Postings Ann Miner Heimback The announcement was made that a country band was coming to hold a talent show at the only “picture show” in our little Oklahoma town on Saturday morning. Most...
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Winter Birds Fly In Early
October 10, 2013 The birds did not get the memo that winter was coming early. When I woke to snow on the mountains this morning, I knew it must be a mistake. It’s not even the middle of October, so...
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Rings of the Tree
The First Ring He was handsome, loaded with personality and very smart. His teachers liked to say that Jeff could learn more looking out the window of the classroom than others could with...
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Rings of the Tree
Rings of the Tree Prologue As she rounded the curve, she remembered the last time she saw him sane…and the first time she realized that he was not…at least, not always. Later, she somehow felt she...
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Meeses Scare Me to Pieces
Mice came with the house that my father had moved into town from one of his farms. We could hear them running through the walls. When one came out into the living space, I got the shovel from the...
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Kickin’ Up My Heels
Today is the first time in my life that I remember leaving the doctor’s office wanting to kick up my heels. I can’t, of course. It is not something I was ever able to do, and at 75 years old, I would...
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Keep Moving
A bicycle built for two may be a way to relieve symptoms of Parkinson’s Disease. The tandem bike was the focus of one of the Top 10 Medical Innovations for Cleveland Clinic, in 2012, according to the...
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Rocked and Restored
Rocked and Restored When was the last time you woke up rested…really rested, and exuberant and excited about meeting the day? Do you remember the last time you had an experience so indefinably happy...
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Once In My Lifetime
I was determined to do this. I had planned it for this very day – my 70th birthday – and I could not back down now. However, as the minutes counted down and the task was imminent, I shut my eyes and...
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Medicine Recall and Telemedicine for the Future
Teva Pharmaceutical Industries announced recently that it is recalling one lot of its generic Parkinson’s disease combination medication, carbidopa/levodopa, because it potentially contains too much of...
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