April 2010 - My Journey with AIDS

It was seven years ago today, in the wee hours of the morning,…

Chopin, Roman Polanski, and a cab “What a great film!” I thought. “No wonder Adrien Brody won the ‘Best Actor’ Oscar.” As I walked out of the Carlton I welcomed the freshness of the night air. I glanced at my watch. It wasn’t quite midnight. Heading east...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 9:06 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, personal journal, AIDS and HIV, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)

My last “visit” with Craig three years ago today

From Mourning diary: Craig’s last days – and a few more April 28, 2007 – Update on Craig My sister Janice and I came to Montreal today for a visit with Claude, our sister Lynn and Craig. Little could have prepared us for how we found Craig...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 7:53 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, grief, Craig Chaplin

The happy, and the dreadfully sad, of April 24

Does anyone in Toronto know where I could get French-language greeting cards? Well, one more time, I had to mail an English birthday card to Craig’s partner, Claude. Now he’s always up for anything that will improve his second-language...

Published Sat, Apr 24 2010 11:07 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, grief, autobiography, health-care, Québec, Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College), Craig Chaplin, Montréal

Premier McGuinty, this is not leadership!

I’ve had a difficult time sleeping this week which I think I can safely attribute to hypomania which, in turn, has kept me busy following the news here in Ontario of promising changes to the province’s sex education curriculum. Alas the promise was dropped...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 4:07 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: politics, public health, evangelicals, social conservatives, Christianism, Ontario sex ed curriculum

Easy Does It

It was not for lack of Vitamin D, absorbed during a short photography walk yesterday, that I awoke before dawn today coming out of an unusually coherent dream and gasping for breath. I knew my blood glucose had crashed; no need to waste a test strip on...

Published Wed, Apr 21 2010 7:56 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, personal journal, AIDS and HIV, photography, type-II diabetes, hypoglycemia

Self-forgiveness – even when it seems so unnecessary

While I would acknowledge there are probably exceptional circumstances I am generally of the restorative justice point of view, as described by Correctional Service of Canada. The holiday weekend news that Graham James – variously described as “hockey...

Published Sat, Apr 10 2010 2:35 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: youth, autobiography, personal journal, childhood trauma, spirituality, bipolar II, sexual orientation, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, fundamentalism, evangelicals, social conservatives, sexual abuse, Christianism

April 2010 - My Journey with AIDS

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