“I didn’t want to be judged by that,” Mr. Smith, 71, explained recently in his light-filled Victorian home north of San Francisco. “Either I’m a good writer or I’m not. ‘He’s our pre-eminent Parkinson’s writer.’ Who needs that?
Clichés
Dream of shoes
“For someone who was told she would never walk again, Mackenzie Gorden spends a lot of time thinking about shoes.”