The Windmills of My Mind
I feel that I am surrounded. Surrounded by silence where even my voice is not heard. I have never excelled at verbal skills, whether this be the reason for my being an introvert or the result of being one. And the more my verbal skills deteriorated, so did my social skills, until they became almost […]
The gift that keeps on taking
They say, “Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth.” But when Michael J. Fox deemed Parkinson’s disease to be a gift, many people – especially those suffering from the disease – took offense at his choice of words. Nonetheless, Michael continued to describe Parkinson’s as a gift, but with the following clarification: “Because Parkinson’s […]