I'm Jonathan K. Pard and welcome to K-Pard.

Veteran television actor Michael J. Fox has written four books, three of them memoirs.

In his latest memoir, no time like the future, an optimist considers mortality, Fox gets

personal about his Parkinson's and how he's adapted to it.

We have to be honest about what's happened.

We have to have the truth, the things that you start with are what they are.

You set that and then you can change.

You find niches in it to make it better, but you have to accept it for what it is first.

In this conversation, first recorded on September 17th for Washington Post Live, Fox talks

less about his career and more about his family, how important they are to him and how important

they were to getting to the honesty depicted in no time like the future.

This is your fourth book and your third memoir and in this one, you open by talking about

an injury you sustained after spinal surgery in 2018 that resulted in you having to learn to walk

again.

One, I want to know why that was, but also what was it about that challenge in particular that

forced you to rethink your trademark positive outlook on life?

Well, did you give it a little backstory?

I had had Parkinson's for 30 years at this point, this was in 2018 and so I said to people

I reached at Daytona with the disease, I would need to do whatever I didn't need to do

and we'd be allowing, we'd gradually take more and more and there would be more loss,

but I felt like I'm in my terms.

So I might have been cocky about that, but that's how I felt it was going.

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