My Journey with AIDS

Awesome task (or perhaps not): bridging the perspective gap

Excerpts from my tweets and a RT from the past few hours: Death by daily repression and near-starvation or death by desperate martyrdom via the State responsible? Your choice? #Bahrain #Libya #Yemen MD from #Bahrain: “Pls, pls, where is the #UN;...

Published Fri, Feb 18 2011 2:06 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, youth, activism, politics, human rights, YouTube, biography/autobiography

Another hard tumble on ice – and still I enjoy winter!

Just twelve days after landing ass-down on my wallet in Perth, ice in Toronto claimed me on Friday – only I went down faster and even harder! I was at Riverdale Farm taking pictures of some of the birds and animals there and I went to check out...

Published Fri, Jan 07 2011 9:37 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: Toronto, internal fixation surgery, distal radius fracture of the right radius, Riverdale Farm, gluteus maximus

Spring at Allan’s Mill (as previously seen on Facebook)

Scotch Line Cemetery and Allan’s Mill Grant’s Creek doesn’t even make it on to the map (as a tributary of the Tay River) but, as the pictures show, it was rushing at full spring speed a couple of weeks ago, roaring past the former Allan’s...

Published Mon, May 09 2011 9:01 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography, Perth

Sakura Hanami welcomes spring in Toronto’s High Park

Perth & environs, Lanark Cty., Ontario, Canada – December, 2011

Perth & environs, Lanark Cty., Ontario, Canada – December, 2011, a set on Flickr. It looked like it was going to be a green (more like brown) holiday in eastern Ontario until about 15 cm of sticky snow arrived on December 23rd. Perfect! Read...

Published Fri, Dec 30 2011 8:51 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: Uncategorized

Pig Penn

Very puzzling, but markedly less infuriating than the sexual abuse and cover-up scandal shrouding Penn State University, is the thoughtless, pigskin-headed response last night by student mobs to the sackings of the university president and, much more...

Published Thu, Nov 10 2011 11:22 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, youth, autobiography, childhood trauma, blog therapy, sexual abuse, sexual abuse victims, jock mentality, Penn State

Two names to be added to Craig Chaplin Memorial Award

This spring’s presentation of the award in my brother’s memory will include a couple of firsts – two individuals are being cited and they’re from across the Canada-U.S. border in neighbouring Vermont. To be more accurate, one-half...

Published Mon, Mar 19 2012 10:40 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: spirituality, human rights, social justice, sexual orientation, Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College), Craig Chaplin, faith, church

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

I’m sure that Craig would be proud of his United Church of Canada electing a gay man as Moderator

The criteria my brother Craig set out for the United Theological College award in his name reads in part: To recognize the powerful and passionate ministries of gay and *** persons and to honour one whose life’s work has been particularly distinguished...

Published Fri, Aug 17 2012 11:37 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: activism, Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College), Craig Chaplin, United Church of Canada, coming out of the closet, homophobia, biography/autobiography, Rev. Dr. Gary Paterson

Christmas church candles and Coca-Cola chuckles

As I look forward to hearing and singing the music of the Christmas season I think back to the break-neck pace we kept in the family at this time of year when I was a kid. This probably would have been the Sunday for our church’s candlelight service,...

Published Sun, Dec 13 2009 1:24 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, United Church of Canada, Coca-Cola Santas, faith, church, Valleyfield (QC) United Church

December 1, 2009

A lament for Haiti

It’s about so much more than re-building, regardless of whatever building codes might be enforced or unseemly ‘Shock Doctrine’ proposed. Those poor (literally) children. Thousands now orphaned in a country where too many already were...

Published Sun, Jan 24 2010 12:57 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: childhood trauma, AIDS and HIV, mental health, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), Haiti earthquake relief, shock doctrine

Chris Tindal – my choice to succeed Kyle Rae in Toronto’s Ward 27

Matthew, over at Not an Official Green Party Canada Site, has done an excellent job outlining the reasons why Chris Tindal would make a fantastic member of Toronto City Council for Ward 27 – a race sans incumbent with Kyle Rae’s decision not to run again...

Published Sun, Jan 24 2010 10:13 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: activism, politics, 2010 Toronto municipal elections, Toronto Centre, Chris Tindal, Ward 27 Toronto Centre

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

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

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