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World AIDS Day 2010 – Stories – 2 – “This friend living with AIDS who gave me so much…” by Dominique Gauvreau (Google translation edited by KC)

Each author in this series has generously given me permission to post their work. The views and experiences shared are their own. Where applicable, links will also be provided at the end of the piece. This is the World AIDS Day, 2010 entry in Dominique...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 11:49 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, activism, AIDS and HIV, spirituality, stigma, sexual orientation, World AIDS Day, Québec, Montréal, faith, church, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, fundamentalism, social conservatives, sexual abuse, homophobia, youth suicide, biography/autobiography
World AIDS Day 2010 – Stories – 1 – Excerpts from the Prologue of “Crooked Road Straight: The Awakening of AIDS Activist Linda Jordan” by Tina A. Brown

Each author in this series has generously given me permission to post their work. The views and experiences shared are their own. Where applicable, links will also be provided at the end of the piece. AIDS didn’t become important to me until somebody...

Published Tue, Nov 30 2010 9:50 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: writing, activism, AIDS and HIV, spirituality, stigma, World AIDS Day, faith, biography/autobiography
A call-out for stories (yes you!) – World AIDS Day 2010

First of all, this is not a contest. Every story will be published on my blog (and re-posted to Facebook & Twitter via links) in the order in which I receive them. You may send them to me within the body of an email, or by attaching a document, and...

Published Thu, Nov 25 2010 7:17 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: writing, AIDS and HIV, World AIDS Day, HIV/AIDS stories, biography/autobiography, World AIDS Day 2010
Balderson Cemetery Revisited

I like visiting cemeteries, at least on those occasions when I am not there in mourning. ‘Twas ever thus, be it the Protestant cemetery two blocks from our church in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Elmwood Cemetery in Perth where several Chaplins...

Published Wed, Nov 24 2010 1:10 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, writing, autobiography, photography, Perth
For Betty Ann

I’m the only one, I dare say, who can appreciate at this very moment – Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 04 04 06 01 EST – both the frustration and the ‘been punk’d’ feeling I have after experiencing countless “(Not Responding)” messages from any number...

Published Tue, Nov 23 2010 3:03 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, autobiography, AIDS and HIV, photography, spirituality, YouTube, sexual orientation, friendship
Ce grand week-end de sport à Montréal

Saturday: “Le Canadien blanchit les Maple Leafs 2-0″ dit La Presse Sunday (Alouettes vs. Argonauts): “De la tension dans l’air” No translation required. (You’ll have noticed I’m only a sports...

Published Sun, Nov 21 2010 4:10 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: Montréal, Toronto
A u t u m n – t h a n k s

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Published Sat, Nov 20 2010 10:58 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography
A veritable piece of music history heads down the highway

The family piano is on its way to southern Ontario from Perth, having been wrapped in quilts with care this morning and loaded into a moving van. It is about to find an appreciative home at my sister’s where my young niece and nephew will hopefully...

Published Sat, Nov 20 2010 7:23 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, Perth, church, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield QC, Heintzman Pianos, Ontario
The magic of (a) meeting

I am by habit, if not by nature, quite a loner. As an example I often recall the extraordinary lengths I went to in learning my way around London ahead of a trip there with a group of fellow high school students. Why? So I could go out on my own unencumbered...

Published Fri, Nov 19 2010 8:10 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, spirituality, recovery, friendship
An “AIDS day”

I can’t remember who first coined the phrase (and whether he’s still alive), or where I heard it, but I’m having an “AIDS day” – not as bad as they used to be, mind you, but unmistakable all the same. My stomach feels bloated, despite not having...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 3:31 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, medical update
Town Crier silenced

‘The voice of Valleyfield’ has died and, while I hadn’t given him any thought for many, many years happening on to this story in The Gazette brought back great memories. Anyone of a certain age from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec will...

Published Sun, Nov 14 2010 10:02 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, autobiography, Québec, The Gazette (Montreal), Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Antonin (Tony) Guevremont
An historic church building lives into the future with the past

Crédit-photo: Massicotte et Dignard That glass atrium between the church on the left and the social hall on the right was, until renovations began, an empty space most of the time – except in the weeks leading up to Christmas when a pre-fabricated wall...

Published Sat, Nov 13 2010 3:50 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, spirituality, United Church of Canada, church, architecture, Eglise Unie de Valleyfield United Church, Musée de Société des Deux-Rives, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield QC
Strive to be happy

“The universe is unfolding as it should” came up in a discussion this evening and it reminded me of the place, literally and figuratively, “Desiderata” had in my home growing up – particularly through the 1970s. A sheet of faux parchment paper, poster...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 7:42 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: spirituality, poetry, Desiderata
I remember how Grandma’s memories stung her

Although I have never been in Perth to mark Remembrance Day, my grandmother felt the loss of her brother deeply, year-round, decades after the fact when I was a kid. My Great-Uncle Tom was killed in 1917 on the World War One battlefields of France roughly...

Published Wed, Nov 10 2010 11:04 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, VILLERS-AU-BOIS, Remembrance Day, World War I
Perth’s former library inspired by stately bank building

The Perth Scientific and Literary Society, founded in 1906 in order to apply for a Carnegie Foundation grant, built a library in the Beaux Arts style a year later. It was a landmark public building until it was severely damaged, and its collection...

Published Tue, Nov 09 2010 12:21 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography, Perth, Toronto, architecture

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World AIDS Day 2010 – Stories – 2 – “This friend living with AIDS who gave me so much…” by Dominique Gauvreau (Google translation edited by KC)

World AIDS Day 2010 – Stories – 1 – Excerpts from the Prologue of “Crooked Road Straight: The Awakening of AIDS Activist Linda Jordan” by Tina A. Brown

A call-out for stories (yes you!) – World AIDS Day 2010

Balderson Cemetery Revisited

For Betty Ann

Ce grand week-end de sport à Montréal

A u t u m n – t h a n k s

A veritable piece of music history heads down the highway

The magic of (a) meeting

An “AIDS day”

Town Crier silenced

An historic church building lives into the future with the past

Strive to be happy

I remember how Grandma’s memories stung her

Perth’s former library inspired by stately bank building