My Journey with AIDS

On the late David Dewees and trial by sensationalist media

Note to readers: I’m taking an extended Thanksgiving break away from my computer, facebook and twitter. So for the six days or so that I cannot respond to your comments, please know that they are appreciated and I will be reviewing them when I return...

Published Mon, Oct 05 2009 4:22 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: Global TV News, family, Toronto Mendelssohn Choirs, media, Fairview Mall (St. Catharines) washroom arrests, St. Catharines, David Dewees, John Musselman, media sensationalism, CTV Toronto, grief, youth, Lama Nicolas, Jarvis Collegiate Institute

Ice cream (it melts out in the open!)

With the encouragement of Eileen (see her comment after the original “Ice Cream” post) I have edited the story down to the following: Ice cream Two of my favorite places for ice cream were about one hundred-fifty miles apart – one in...

Published Tue, Sep 29 2009 12:54 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: writing, autobiography

Ice cream

(second draft) Ice cream There didn’t need to be a special occasion for us to go for ice cream when I was a kid. The very act of going was a special occasion. Two shops stand out in my memory, one in Valleyfield, Québec where we lived, the other in Glen...

Published Mon, Sep 28 2009 4:53 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: youth, writing, autobiography

What makes a good teacher?

Another victim of my elementary school teacher-as-nemesis, Carl Glenn, has been in contact with me and I can’t describe the sense of validation I feel. It’s like having a friend in my corner, even if we were years apart. (I am also hoping...

Published Thu, Sep 24 2009 7:27 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: youth, autobiography, personal journal, Gault School, Chateauguay Valley Regional High School, mental illness, childhood trauma, Carl Glenn, child abuse

Would I dare – for the Stephen Lewis Foundation? Maybe, with some ideas!

After President Obama’s lively, wide-ranging chat with David Letterman Monday it was a treat to watch as another President, Bill Clinton, occupied the guest chair on Tuesday. Clinton is in New York for the international gathering of his Clinton...

Published Tue, Sep 22 2009 11:12 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: Stephen Lewis, Kenn's 50th birthday, Stephen Lewis Foundation "A Dare to Remember", activism, AIDS and HIV

1909 picture only tells a fraction of the story

Thomas Butler was born in Bathurst, Lanark County, Ontario in 1826, one of nine children of 1819-1820 Irish immigrants John Butler and Alice Warren. In 1852 he married Dorcas Radford, born in 1835, also in Bathurst Township. That’s their picture...

Published Thu, Oct 15 2009 6:50 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, writing, autobiography, genealogy, Barker, Burke, McKay, Butler, photography, Warren, Chaplin, Perth

A milestone

On my facebook page this morning I wrote, “Kenn Chaplin is very grateful for all the 50th birthday greetings and to have reached such a milestone without doing myself too much irreparable harm.” It could have been much different. As a teenager I thought...

Published Tue, Oct 27 2009 10:39 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, writing, autobiography, personal journal, AIDS and HIV, health-care, spirituality

Would you help? Cutting and pasting is mostly all that’s required!

Except for the first paragraph, which I wrote, this letter is available for you to cut and paste here at http://www.essentialmedicine.org/add-your-voice/camr/ Don’t worry about the October 23 deadline having passed. The bill is only at the committee...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 4:49 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: activism, AIDS and HIV, health-care, politics, human rights, Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime, social justice, Planet Earth has AIDS

Unelected Mike Duffy’s shameful disrespect for NDP’s elected MP Peter Stoffer

London-area Liberal MP Glen Pearson rightly calls out Mike Duffy in his blog for Duff’s disrespectful and mean-spirited views on NDP Member of Parliament Peter Stoffer. I say shame on you Duff you flabby, blabby embarrassing symbol of everything...

Published Sat, Nov 07 2009 2:31 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: media, politics, Peter Stoffer, Glen Pearson, Conservative Senator, Mike Duffy

BringChange2Mind.org

More than a few tears of understanding, and being understood, came to my eyes tonight as I watched NBC Nightly News. Brian Williams featured a report on an initiative of Glenn Close called Bring Change 2 mind. Ms. Close and her sister Jessie, who is bipolar...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2009 5:37 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, activism, AIDS and HIV, health-care, Jessie Close, YouTube, mental health, bipolar, Glenn Close, bipolar II, stigma

Keith Olbermann: Sarah Palin’s Fans Turn On Her At Book Signing Read More...

Published Sat, Nov 21 2009 10:23 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: Uncategorized

Sarah Palin has a tough week on the “Going Rogue” book tour Colbert, Letterman, Conan, Ferguson, Fallon & Kimmel have great fun at Sarah Palin’s expense (thanks to MSNBC’s Countdown for the montage). Afterwards, fans converge...

Published Sat, Nov 21 2009 10:19 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: Uncategorized

Schlumbergera’s ability to lift spirits

From my holiday letter of 1998: My Christmas cactus hasn’t bloomed this year. Alas, I don’t think I can attribute that to the strange weather. I “pruned” it last summer and I think I must have killed it, ironic given the fact that the fellow, from whose...

Published Mon, Nov 23 2009 12:18 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, personal journal, activism, AIDS and HIV, social justice, holiday letter, Warren Hartman, sexual orientation

I’d bet Freddie Mercury would love this!

To mark the eighteenth anniversary of Freddie Mercury’s death (reflections here from his mother) – really 18 years? – his old friends The Muppets have destroyed, all in good fun mind you, Bohemian Rhapsody. All in time for World AIDS...

Published Wed, Nov 25 2009 2:12 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: AIDS and HIV, Muppets, creative arts, Freddie Mercury, World AIDS Day

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