Support Group Meeting Dec 15, The return of the Holiday Potluck!

Ho!...  H o ! . . .  H  o   o    o     o  !  .  .  .  Happy holiday greetings to you wherever and whomever you are. In case you hadn't noticed, another year has whizzed by. This means it's time for yet another holiday potluck, so let's mount up the reindeer and bring our favorite dishes to the Pioneer home at 3:30 Saturday the 15th of December in the fabulous and fashionable Tundra Lounge on the fifth floor of the swank and elegant Anchorage Pioneer home. We will provide cups, flatware de plastique, and paper plates, bowls etc. You bring your festive holiday selves and something delectable to eat, whatever that means to you.  We will have instruments on hand to accompany some songs of the season, so practice your loudness, the better to raise a joyful sound up through the darkest hours of Winter.

Your faithful Anchorage Parkinson's Disease Support  Group emcee,

Peter

The Parkinson's Forecast for Anchorage and Environs

Heads up fellow PwPD. We will beat back the darkness Saturday, Dec 16 by potlucking like we don't care that it's too dim to tell what exactly is on our plates. Not that we can taste anything, anyway, given that our sense of smell is shot. We'll eat, watch the lights come on across the Anchorage bowl in the early winter gloaming, and all sing "Jingle Bells" if I have anything to say about it. I'll bring something main-dishy, scads of festive plastic utensils, and charming holiday-themed paper plates and cups (although the theme of the holiday may be Halloween, I'm not exactly sure what I have on hand.) You bring whatever you think goes well with light and heat deprivation. You could consider bringing something known to be particularly good for People Packing Parkinson's, blueberries, vegetables rich in color, leafy greens and, God bless 'em, tasty wild-caught Alaska salmon!

Those in need of more distraction from the bleak mid-winter (and that would be all of us) should consider going to voice pathologist Anne Ver Hoef's gathering for those who wish to practice speaking to strengthen their voices. If you didn't get the memo, here is the gist:

The second meeting of our PD  Conversation Group is planned for Monday, December 18th at 3:30 at Regional Hospital , Conference room 1.

Some activities we discussed doing at this meeting are:

Holiday singing

Script or play reading

Chinese auction  

read and discuss news articles

The goal is to develop and improve our speaking and conversation skills in a supportive group  of folks who all share the challenge of "Living well with Parkinson's"

And  we are setting up a special meeting JANUARY 4TH, on Care partnering for PD. The Presenter will be Connie Carpenter Phinney of the Davis Phinney Foundation. Connie won a gold Medal at the Los Angeles Olympics in bicycling and competed at the Olympics as a speed-skater, too. But what qualifies her as a speaker on care partnering is 17 years of experience garnered through her marriage to fellow Olympic cycling medalist Davis Phinney, who has PD. More details to follow.

That's about it! Hope to see you at some or all of these great moments in Northern Parkinson's.