The story is a testament to the consolations that get me through and give meaning to every area of my life.

I have now is whenever my kids say, "Can you look at this?" or "Can I ask you something?" or "Can you come here for a minute?" no matter what I am doing, I say yes instead of saying, "Just a sec." They never abuse the privilege, and I never once regretted it. What they took me away to do was never less important than what I was doing already.

I find as long as I acknowledge the truth of something, then that's it. I know what it is and then I can operate. But if I overestimate the downside of something or the challenge of something and I get too obsessed about the difficulty of it, then I don't leave enough room to be open to the upside, the possibility.

I don't have any affirmations, I don't have any of that stuff. My natural state is to look at things as possibilities and as opportunities.

I can get sad, I can get frustrated, I can get scared, but I never get depressed - because there's joy in my life.

I'm glad I don't have a drinking problem,' I confided, 'because I don't think I'd ever be able to quit.

I discovered that I was part of a Parkinson's community with similar experiences and similar questions that I'd been dealing with alone.