My Journey with AIDS

Oh look! It’s happened again!

I’m delighted to be at the top of the list, perhaps it’s random, of 16 Five Star Rated AIDS Information Sites & Blogs – and I’ve found a few fellow travelers in the process! Read More...

Published Tue, Aug 21 2012 11:31 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: writing, autobiography, activism, AIDS and HIV, mental health, bipolar II, stigma, blog therapy, personal growth

The American health-care debate from an HIV patient’s perspective

I do not understand all the ins and outs of the American health-care system, neither that which existed before today’s vote in the House of Representatives nor the one after. Here’s what I do know. Canada has a single-payer health system for...

Published Sun, Mar 21 2010 3:45 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: activism, AIDS and HIV, health-care, public health, politics - USA, Barack Obama

World AIDS Day 2010 – Stories – 3 – “Kim and Alex” by JPK

Each writer 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. The best thing that I can say about Kim at this point...

Published Wed, Dec 01 2010 12:13 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, writing, AIDS and HIV, mental health, World AIDS Day, biography/autobiography

“Changing My Mind” could change yours – about mental illness and Margaret Trudeau

This is an autobiography, her third, of someone whose slow-motion train wreck – no, a series of fast-moving train wrecks – was seen, at least in part, by political watchers and gossip magazine readers the world over. We suspect the ending...

Published Tue, Oct 19 2010 2:50 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: mental illness, mental health, bipolar, stigma, recovery, Margaret Trudeau, Policy and Advocacy, Substance abuse

Pill relief

I’m awaiting delivery of my next two weeks’ worth of medications with a major change in the blister packs. Gone will be Norvir, Prezista, Truvada and Nevirapine, all taken twice a day, and they’re being replaced with ONE pill, Genvoya...

Published Wed, Dec 13 2017 9:22 AM by My journey with AIDS…and more!

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, health-care, medical update

Another important day for self-acceptance

If I have learned nothing else about my bipolar II today, it is that I am certainly not the only one in similar circumstances who has found photography to be a healing past-time. Facebook is teeming today with some of the creative works...

Published Sun, Mar 30 2014 3:28 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, childhood trauma, activism, AIDS and HIV, photography, mental health, bipolar, bipolar II, stigma, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), sexual abuse, suicide, adult survivors

Another change to “Mr. G’s eye exam”

Mr. G’s eye exam has been changed yet again so that the antagonist, though dead for more than a decade, might only be identified by his last initial and the responsibilities he held – not by full name nor school. I’m doing this following...

Published Sun, May 04 2014 8:01 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, childhood trauma

May in Montréal

For my complete series of photos taken this week (note the Creative Commons copyright) just click here. Read More...

Published Sat, May 15 2010 3:08 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: photography, Québec, Montréal

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

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

Thanksgiving 2012 in pictures – Perth and area, Lanark County, Ontario, Canada

Craig`s timing

When Craig died five years ago today he could not have ordained that his memory would loom large during this week each year as the award in his name is presented at today`s Convocation ceremonies of United Theological College. He would not have chosen...

Published Wed, May 09 2012 7:55 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, grief, autobiography, Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College), Craig Chaplin, Montréal, United Church of Canada

Nine years older nine years later

It’s been so long I had to look up what SARS stood for (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome). That was part of the underlying score as I spent five weeks in two hospitals starting nine years ago early this morning. Why was I laid up? Well an item...

Published Mon, Apr 30 2012 5:26 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, health-care, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), Toronto, internal fixation surgery, SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome)

An authentic winter weekend in Montréal

Click here for a link to an album of pictures from my busy weekend in Montréal. (As I write this I still have a half-day left here so there will be more pictures added eventually.) Arriving here mid-afternoon Friday I`ve experienced the city in winter...

Published Mon, Feb 06 2012 9:39 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, photography, Montréal

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