June 2012 - My Journey with AIDS - The Network of Care

Cathedral Bluffs, Scarborough (Toronto), sunrise, June 27

Hopped up on sugar and caffeine early this morning I had the bright idea of seeing if I could get to the Scarborough Bluffs in time for some sunrise photos. I won’t disclose how I got there other than to say that it involved the kindness of neither...

Published Wed, Jun 27 2012 7:12 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, photography, Toronto, Scarborough Bluffs

Jerry Sandusky guilty, now what?

In the hours following the conviction of their once-revered Jerry Sandusky, Penn State is most anxious to move on. After my exclamation on Facebook of “Yes! Yes! Yes!”, attached to a media account of the guilty verdicts on Friday, I wondered...

Published Sun, Jun 24 2012 12:46 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, autobiography, child abuse, mental health, sexual abuse, post-traumatic stress

Five Years Since a Critical Day One

It was an early night to bed on Tuesday, June 19, 2007. I had absolutely no more drinking to do and decided that the last day of this particular spring was a bitterly appropriate day to reach out for sobriety. Ruminations of suicide the past few days...

Published Tue, Jun 19 2012 8:02 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: grief, autobiography, AIDS and HIV, mental health, bipolar II, recovery, brain trauma

Prom Night and Father’s Day

Skimming my home-town newspapers’ web sites I noticed that this is Prom weekend for some of the high schools in the area. Tomorrow is Father’s Day. I’m not sure if the two occasions shared the same weekend in my time. Some quick math...

Published Sat, Jun 16 2012 7:19 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, friendship

Wherefore art thou, Cardinals – Oh!

This was a landmark day in the lives of Ontario high school students who have been exercising their democratic rights, without the vote even, for the passage of Bill 13, the Ontario provincial government’s gay-straight alliance (GSA) initiative...

Published Tue, Jun 05 2012 8:53 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, autobiography, activism, politics, sexual orientation, homosexuality, social conservatives, sexual abuse, Gay-Straight Alliance (GSA), Bill 13

A school trip to London with a Kodak Instamatic camera

I think I’ve posted these scanned photos before, but today’s festivities along the River Thames brought back wonderful memories of a class trip to London which took place during March Break in 1976. The camera was a Kodak Instamatic –...

Published Sun, Jun 03 2012 12:15 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, photography, architecture, biography/autobiography, London

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