Author Bill Schmalfeldt wraps up his first volume of essays by mocking his midbrain, tormenting his little sister over her toy cell phone, and sharing his bizarre, levodopa-induced dreams.  "You Never Miss the Dopamine... (until the brain runs dry) Vol. 1 is available on Bill's website,...

In the fifth installment of his hilarious true life essays about "Life with Parkinson's disease, and the other crap that annoys me," Bill Schmalfeldt discusses the UP side of the disease, bonking his head on a kitchen cabinet while killing ants (pain and pleasure!), more of his "bad radio"...

In this fourth episode of hilarious true essays, Bill Schmalfeldt talks drugs, booze and constipation.  He confesses that the extra levodopa helps with the Parkinson's disease-related cramps at night, but OY the dreams!  (Being married to Betty Boop, for instance.)  And he talks about a...