My Journey with AIDS

Pictures of Christmas in and around Perth, Lanark Cty, Ontario

The chiming clock atop Perth Town Hall Maximilian’s on Gore Street East (a great menu with greater service!) Code’s Mill and the original Code family home overlooking beautiful Stewart Park The former Bottling Works (now condominiums) overlooking...

Published Sun, Dec 20 2009 10:59 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, autobiography, photography, Perth

Post-Christmas pictures from Perth, Ontario, Canada

c.c. PM Harper

Her Excellency the Right Honourable Michaëlle Jean, Governor General of Canada Rideau Hall Ottawa Your Excellency: Greetings of the season to you and your family! I am writing out of a deep concern for the democratic institutions of Canada in light of...

Published Wed, Dec 30 2009 6:31 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: activism, politics, Prime Minister Harper, Michaëlle Jean

There’s a letter to André Gagnon in here somewhere!

This could be an overdue letter of thanks to a Montréal-based pianist and composer whose music has accompanied me since some time in high school. Born August 1, 1942, in the tiny village of Saint-Pacôme, Québec, in the lower St. Lawrence River area known...

Published Sun, Jan 10 2010 3:00 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: mental illness, politics, mental health, Québec, Montréal, Émile Nelligan, André Gagnon

It really IS an honour just to be nominated!

A few days ago, the twelfth day or so of a miserable cold (which explains only my delay in posting) I received this email: Kenn, I just wanted to let you know that My Journey with AIDS has been nominated in the Health & Wellness category of the 2010...

Published Thu, Jan 14 2010 4:42 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: writing, autobiography, activism, 2010 Canadian Weblog Awards

The 70s certainly weren’t ALL bad. R.I.P. Lindsay Cullen.

Yesterday I learned of the death, on New Year’s Eve, of one of my favourite high school teachers. A reporter from The Gleaner, the local small-town newspaper, contacted me when she saw that I had written a letter which mentioned Lindsay Cullen a...

Published Wed, Jan 20 2010 7:10 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: youth, autobiography, creative arts, great teacher, music teacher, Ormstown Quebec

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

Safely out of the foxhole – again

Y’know that expression, however annoying it can be to hear sometimes (for me at least), about there being no atheists in foxholes? There’s something about being ill – be it AIDS-related or just a near-pneumonia cold such as I’ve...

Published Tue, Jan 26 2010 2:50 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: personal journal, AIDS and HIV, spirituality, mental health, medical update

So this afternoon a friend’s Facebook status update reads “Feelings, nothing more than feelings” to which I reply “Trying to forget my feelings of luououove…” 70s…Morris Albert…don’t tell me you weren’t...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 12:46 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: youth, autobiography, personal journal, YouTube

Retirement wishes for Andy Barrie – and memories of the Montréal days

It’s only right, I suppose, that someone – even Andy Barrie – who is fifteen years older than me and fifteen years younger than my mother would be retirement age. When he made it official today, however, it reminded me how ageless the...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 2:35 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: media, youth, autobiography, Québec, Montréal, CBC, Toronto, Neil McKenty, Gaorge Balcan

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Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 10:17 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: AIDS and HIV

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Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 10:12 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: AIDS and HIV, health-care, Planet Earth has AIDS

A major breakthrough in the still-mysterious (to me) web of HIV/AIDS research

I didn’t have the radio or television on Monday so I nearly missed this – what, to this layman anyway, has remained such a mystery since the early, crudest diagrams of the virus first appeared. I got it no later than 1989. It nearly killed...

Published Mon, Feb 01 2010 10:49 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, Planet Earth has AIDS, integrase

This looks to be a major breakthrough in the still-sometimes-mysterious web of HIV/AIDS research