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Alyson Huntly will receive this year’s Craig Chaplin Memorial Award

Google Alyson Huntly’s name, as I did even before I knew with absolute certainty that I’d be writing this, and you’ll see what an accomplished author, educator, Diaconal Minister, grandmother (and on and on) she is! Add Doctor, too...

Published Mon, Mar 15 2010 11:49 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: activism, AIDS and HIV, spirituality, social justice, sexual orientation, Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College), Craig Chaplin, Montréal, United Church of Canada, faith, church, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, Alyson Huntly, Affirm United/S'affirmer ensemble, same-sex marriage, gay clergy
Unearthing one of my early newspaper appearances

After the cathartic experience here this morning of again recalling Craig’s struggles, in the early days of his ministry, I was remembering some of what was going on in my life 700 km away from Craig. In the raucous days of an Ontario Human...

Published Tue, Mar 16 2010 1:02 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, activism, AIDS and HIV, spirituality, politics, human rights, social justice, stigma, sexual orientation, United Church of Canada, faith, church, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, fundamentalism, evangelicals, Ontario Human Rights Code, Bill 7, queer, social conservatives
‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like’ having no score for The Sound of Music wedding march?

As I followed some suggestions, during a morning stroll through YouTube, after viewing an organist handle a Bach piece with flair I found another one with a story much like one I can share. Many years ago, I’ll bet it’s pushing forty years now, my mother...

Published Fri, Mar 19 2010 6:03 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, YouTube, church
Cross-posted from “Shared writing”

I’ve tentatively started an online writers’ group, a blog for writing, but I don’t even have a name for it, not to mention other members (although the usual suspects know who you are.) Wanna write in my tree-house? Read More...

Published Sat, Mar 20 2010 7:27 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: writing
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
The infuriating sins of the ‘Fathers’

As I walked up to the subway this morning I passed a Tamil-Canadian family crossing the street from St. James Town to attend Our Lady of Lourdes Roman Catholic Church – so a confession is in order. I have received Communion from Jesuits there which...

Published Sun, Mar 28 2010 3:42 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: youth, autobiography, child abuse, AIDS and HIV, sexual orientation, faith, church, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder), homosexuality, sexual abuse, Roman Catholic Church sexual abuse
An Easter I wish I could do over

In my second year at college I hitchhiked from Niagara to Burlington, as I would do occasionally, just a few weeks before Easter. A cousin, her husband and their young family were happy to pamper me with good food and fun. On this particular weekend they...

Published Mon, Mar 29 2010 1:57 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, activism, sexual orientation, United Church of Canada, faith, church, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, evangelicals, social conservatives, Christianism
Self-forgiveness – even when it seems so unnecessary

While I would acknowledge there are probably exceptional circumstances I am generally of the restorative justice point of view, as described by Correctional Service of Canada. The holiday weekend news that Graham James – variously described as “hockey...

Published Sat, Apr 10 2010 2:35 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: youth, autobiography, personal journal, childhood trauma, spirituality, bipolar II, sexual orientation, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, fundamentalism, evangelicals, social conservatives, sexual abuse, Christianism
Easy Does It

It was not for lack of Vitamin D, absorbed during a short photography walk yesterday, that I awoke before dawn today coming out of an unusually coherent dream and gasping for breath. I knew my blood glucose had crashed; no need to waste a test strip on...

Published Wed, Apr 21 2010 7:56 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, personal journal, AIDS and HIV, photography, type-II diabetes, hypoglycemia
Premier McGuinty, this is not leadership!

I’ve had a difficult time sleeping this week which I think I can safely attribute to hypomania which, in turn, has kept me busy following the news here in Ontario of promising changes to the province’s sex education curriculum. Alas the promise was dropped...

Published Fri, Apr 23 2010 4:07 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: politics, public health, evangelicals, social conservatives, Christianism, Ontario sex ed curriculum
The happy, and the dreadfully sad, of April 24

Does anyone in Toronto know where I could get French-language greeting cards? Well, one more time, I had to mail an English birthday card to Craig’s partner, Claude. Now he’s always up for anything that will improve his second-language...

Published Sat, Apr 24 2010 11:07 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, grief, autobiography, health-care, Québec, Chaplin Memorial Fund (United Theological College), Craig Chaplin, Montréal
My last “visit” with Craig three years ago today

From Mourning diary: Craig’s last days – and a few more April 28, 2007 – Update on Craig My sister Janice and I came to Montreal today for a visit with Claude, our sister Lynn and Craig. Little could have prepared us for how we found Craig...

Published Wed, Apr 28 2010 7:53 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, grief, Craig Chaplin
It was seven years ago today, in the wee hours of the morning,…

Chopin, Roman Polanski, and a cab “What a great film!” I thought. “No wonder Adrien Brody won the ‘Best Actor’ Oscar.” As I walked out of the Carlton I welcomed the freshness of the night air. I glanced at my watch. It wasn’t quite midnight. Heading east...

Published Fri, Apr 30 2010 9:06 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, personal journal, AIDS and HIV, PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder)
Vive les piétons, Montréal!

My biases in favour of Montréal - over the place that serves as my home, Toronto – are longstanding and pretty well-known. For one thing it has always been, for me, a more walkable city – with much more to see in terms of historic architecture...

Published Wed, May 05 2010 8:39 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: Montréal, pedestrian-friendly
When Mother’s Day isn’t ‘Happy’

Mom insisted that there be no Mother’s Day flowers this year. She can’t look at the designated special day the same, perhaps never again. The cruelty this year, in particular, stems from the fact that the second Sunday in May is May 9 – the day, in 2007...

Published Sat, May 08 2010 12:00 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: family, grief, autobiography, Craig Chaplin, Mother's Day

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Alyson Huntly will receive this year’s Craig Chaplin Memorial Award

Unearthing one of my early newspaper appearances

‘How Do You Solve a Problem Like’ having no score for The Sound of Music wedding march?

Cross-posted from “Shared writing”

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

The infuriating sins of the ‘Fathers’

An Easter I wish I could do over

Self-forgiveness – even when it seems so unnecessary

Easy Does It

Premier McGuinty, this is not leadership!

The happy, and the dreadfully sad, of April 24

My last “visit” with Craig three years ago today

It was seven years ago today, in the wee hours of the morning,…

Vive les piétons, Montréal!

When Mother’s Day isn’t ‘Happy’