The Ribbon of Road Ahead

Show up Do I need to bring anything? No. Just show up. “Parkinson’s disease is a disease of the brain” Davis Phinney Foundation Ambassador Edie Anderson’s Dr. told her upon diagnosis. Edie used this same phrase with her physical trainer when he suggested a balance exercise. She wondered how that would improve her symptoms. Trusting…

This is an undated entry.  I think I wrote it in March 2020. No, you can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want You can’t always get what you want But if you try sometime you find You get what you need Songwriters: Keith Richards, Mick Jagger © Abkco Music,…

With the pandemic influencing our whole world, I have extra time. Don’t you? After cleaning closets and drawers and any number of other household chores, I have taken this extra time as an opportunity. That’s not so new to me because I find opportunities just about anywhere. Getting on the computer I looked at pictures,…

Ping-Pong (because it certainly wasn’t table tennis) Entertaining myself is not a problem. I am seldom bored. I can always find things to do, sometimes revisiting childhood games or teenage activities for fun. One day I reached into my memory banks to recall that I used to play Wii. Wii bowling was a favorite. I…

Living in the now   Today has presented several lessons about living in the now. I am really pulling out of my memory banks a saying something like “you can worry about tomorrow, agonize over yesterday but the only thing that gives you peace is living in today”. I woke up before sunrise this morning…

Sharing my reflections of Good Friday:  with thoughts of Dixie Collins Hammock and Wayne A Gilbert    Mary Chapin Carpenter lyrics  “parkinson’s still sucks but now it’s like everyone has a progressive degenerative diagnosis. that doesn’t help me feel less alone” Wayne A Gilbert   “I am glad I have a friend like you” wrote Dixie…

Thoughts on Loss I scroll through the social media posts, past the updates on the Coronavirus, past the ever-lurking advertisements that seep into my feed. I am bored with this online stuff. But then I see them, they catch my eye. I pause. Take another look Carol, don’t let this one by. This one, you…

Now here’s a woman I really admire. Linda K. Olson “Get Out and Go! If I can do it, you can too.” I am so happy to be on Linda’s email list.   I get her posts, which are super inspiring.  I dove into her blog on my birthday, as I was finishing up the…

Back home, it’s so different than riding in Doolie our camper van.  I could get out of the van and have an ocean roaring in my ears from the road noise, I suppose. It is so quiet here.   And sometimes I could not easily get out of the van because I had stiffened up…

I have never been one for fanfare.  I would rather be acknowledged for my hard work in the everyday world than to be put in the limelight.   The readings at church yesterday stated, “don’t hide your light under a bushel”.  I don’t want to hide just my light, I want to hide all of me…