Filled with blossoms and buds the forest touts its regeneration with shades of green and yellow. Cool overcast skies surrender its burdensome water as droplets of rain descend indiscriminately on all that lies below. Some of the rendering penetrates the thirsty soil while some joins the fluid of the running stream. Still other droplets target […]

A steady drizzle descends upon the nearly saturated fields. Birds previously gorging on emerging earthworms find sustenance elsewhere. The humidity when combined with temperatures in the low forties embraces one with a chill to the bone. An assertion that we’ve had enough cold weather does nothing to bring about a change. The rain’s steady beat […]

When they heard the chain slip past the clip on the gate to the barnyard, they all came rushing my way. The four goats, two Great Pyrenees and the flock of chickens all gathered around to greet me as I entered their domain. Agnes, the 90 pound Pyrenees pup grabbed my leg in a firm […]

By: Cathy Garrott Some days I do far better at coping with the frustrations of life with PD than I do other days. I guess that’s just a part of normal life. What used to be, is what I considered normal, but all of that has changed. And now I have a new normal to […]

By: Cathy Garrott We have so many appointments in life and often have trouble remembering them all, but we seem to have no trouble remembering the disappointments. They drag us down and ruin our mood … often making us “not so pleasant” company. Disappointments come when we do not get something we think we need, […]

Stars glisten in the pre-dawn sky as the rowdy rooster cockles his morning song announcing his reign this day. Crisp air fills the lungs as we gaze in awe at the magnificence of God’s creation seen from the deck of the old farmhouse. Gracie the Golden Retriever charges frantically forward as she races around the […]

By Cathy Garrott Each day we all must face the unknown. We never know what might happen that will suddenly turn our world up-side-down. Just as my diagnosis of PD came totally out of the blue (when I had been assured it was something else) turning my life into daily struggles I never expected, I […]

(By Cathy Garrott) It’s interesting how people with PD tend to bond immediately. A former student of mine (30 yrs. ago) goes to the same rehab center that I do and recently, because of a schedule change, we have been in the same group exercising in the pool once a week. Her husband told me […]

By Cathy Garrott: Last week I received a letter from a dear friend in England telling me that her younger sister had just been diagnosed with PD. She said the whole family is somewhat in shock and struggling to grasp what this means for the future. Her letter was somewhat of a cry for me […]

Some PD realizations came to me while I was struggling to get dressed this morning and my undershirt sleeve pushed way up above my elbow as I put on my pullover shirt. My caregiver (husband) was in the room and heard my grumbling … What’s wrong? As I struggled to get my inner sleeve to […]