There are wonderful films about Parkinson’s disease (PD). Important, brave, educational, and inspiring films. But there has never been another documentary series about PD like Boys of Summer. Four films spanning 22 years of lived history with this stupid, poorly understood, beast of a disease. 2004 We didn't set out to make history. We just kept coming back to tell more story, mostly because PD has refused to leave. Michael J. Fox has said his foundation is around until PD is

Rewriting Parkinson’s… one story at a time. For years, our work has lived under the name Yes, And…eXercise!, a program rooted in improvisation, storytelling, and the belief that even in the face of Parkinson’s, there is still space to create, connect, and grow. That belief hasn’t changed. But something deeper has come into focus: This work was never just about exercise. It was never just about classes or programs. It has always been about something more fundamental: How do we

There are movies you enjoy. There are movies you remember. And then there are movies that re-wire your DNA. For me, that movie was Star Wars. I was seven years old. And I didn’t just see it…I entered it. I saw it three times in the theater (that’s all we had back then), returning each time as fast as humanly possible. I remember feeling delightfully nauseous watching Darth Vader’s Tie Fighter spin away after Han Solo cleared the way for Luke to make the miracle shot. When the

Today was supposed to mark a turning point. Every business has to reach and maintain the heart of its customers or risk breaking the relationship. After three years of patchwork care, including rotating aides, last-minute cancellations, and more “emergencies” than any system should reasonably absorb, we made the decision to move my dad from a piecemeal approach with two agencies into full 24-hour care with a single new agency. A new era. More structure. More reliability. Less