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>Dear List-Family... > >I need your collective help. I need your help because > I run a PD support group that, while they're a bunch of >very nice people, they almost always wait to be >ENTERTAINED by me - in my capacity as moderator >as well as a PWP - and by the assorted guest speakers I've >scheduled in the 18 months since the start of the group. > >I learned mighty fast that when I scheduled a guest speaker, >I could count on between 25 to 45 attendees, and for a >select few speakers, there have been over 100 attending. > >What I'm TRYING to say is that we get the BODIES but we >don't get a whole heckuva lotta INTERACTION *during* the >meeting amongst the members. > >People DO interact after the meetings and attend our >monthly "Parkies-On-the-Town" dinners at local eateries >tho, and do interact then. (WHEW) > >I 'm now planning the November 20th meeting, and it's >going to be an interactive meeting if it KILLS me! I'm >gonna do my darndest to cause interaction amongst those >who attend the meeting if I've gotta stand on my head and >spit wooden nickels! (errrrr... I don't do very often) <giggle> > Barb, There is another booklet called "Be Indendent!" A Guide for people with Parkinson's disease put out by APDA Sorry about that Bonnie We take what we can get. I have both books and will mail them today if you send your new address. > >Barb Mallut (getting collection of wooden nickels ready for >action) >[log in to unmask] jjjane http://www.geocities.com/soho/village/6263/pienet/hithgang/hitjaner.html