Home Runs and Chupacabras
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bromack
- Aug 29
- 2 min
Which do you light first?
We've all heard the riddle: A lost hiker caught by surprise with a fierce winter storm stumbles into an old trappers cabin. It is cold...
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bromack
- Aug 18
- 2 min
Parkinson’s disease is a viperfish...
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a viperfish that prowls through my brain, attacking my neurons and depleting me of much-needed dopamine… It’s...
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bromack
- Aug 14
- 4 min
Who, me? Improvise?!
I hear you. Improvisation may sound scary, silly, perhaps even pointless. I can write furiously from where I am, as a decades-long...
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bromack
- Aug 9
- 2 min
To all who should be concerned:
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is the thing that goes bump in the night. I can’t always see its physical effects, but I can always feel it...
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bromack
- Jul 18
- 2 min
Ending Parkinson's disease
It’s time we got serious about Ending Parkinson’s disease - the book and the movement. My latest writing class with PD participants, “Day...
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bromack
- Jul 9
- 6 min
World Parkinson's Congress 2023
Thousands of researchers, clinicians, people with and affected by PD descended upon Barcelona last week for the sixth annual World...
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bromack
- Jun 30
- 5 min
Michael J. Fox's latest documentary, "Still", is our Call to Adventure
Telling a sad sack story about Parkinson’s disease (PD) is boring. That’s what Michael J. Fox tells us in the first ten minutes of his...
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bromack
- Apr 28
- 2 min
The Parkinson's Prison and my plan to escape!
This is a blended letter written from Susan Scarlett, beginning at the end of the 2021 Day One Superheroes program, and revised before...
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bromack
- Feb 28
- 3 min
Day One to the rescue - again!
Written by YAX's own First Follower, Susan Scarlett Prior to my diagnosis of Parkinson’s, I began to notice my handwriting shrinking....
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bromack
- Feb 23
- 4 min
A Care Partner’s Advocacy - a time when I missed the mark
Traveling is not easy for my dad, a 78-year-old man who was diagnosed with Parkinson’s disease (PD) in 2001. At the same time, him...
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bromack
- Feb 2
- 2 min
Yeah, but what happens when it’s not acute?
Our current medical system is brilliant at acute and emergency care. We have fantastic and dedicated practitioners, surgeons and...
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bromack
- Jan 30
- 1 min
Your Daily Dose of Dopamine: Featuring Cole Galloway, PhD
Here's a snippet of our interview with Cole Galloway, PhD. His research Research focuses on physical rehabilitation for children. He is...
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bromack
- Jan 25
- 1 min
Your Daily Dose of Dopamine: Featuring Cindy Copley
The following is the opening transcript from an interview with an awesomely inspiring Run Disney enthusiast who has been making and...
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bromack
- Jan 24
- 3 min
Care Partners - we need YOU!
Care partners play a vital role in the lives of their loved ones with PD. At the same time, there’s all too often a gap between them....
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bromack
- Dec 21, 2022
- 4 min
The longest run: Almost bonking...
The final long run of my marathon training was scheduled for twenty miles. I planned to do it on Friday, Dec. 16 in Walnut Creek, CA...
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bromack
- Oct 8, 2022
- 2 min
When taking the long road, we need to refuel
Blog #2 on my first marathon training One of the things I really enjoy about long runs (anything over six miles starts feeling long to me...
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bromack
- Oct 1, 2022
- 4 min
The stories we tell ourselves
I came across the phrase, "the story I'm telling myself" in Brene Brown's "Rising Strong". She operationalizes it to identify her...
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Susan Scarlett
- May 11, 2022
- 3 min
The YAX Factor
Whenever I mention what I call “The YAX Factor” to people who have played improvisation with Robert Cochrane, they all know what I mean....
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Robert Cochrane
- Jan 20, 2021
- 2 min
You're lost (and that's great!)
One of the power phrases of improvisation is “trust the unknown”. While this sounds exciting to me, as someone who adventures into the...
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