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Thank you Candy Crowley and “State of the Union”

“I think you might have bipolar disorder,” he (psychiatrist) said. “Oh, thank God,” I answered. Surprise registered on his face. “I don’t think I’ve ever had that reaction before.” “No, I am so relieved...

Published Mon, Jan 17 2011 1:22 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, mental illness, AIDS and HIV, mental health, bipolar II, stigma, recovery, CNN, AIDS, Candy Crowley, Major depressive disorder, Bipolar II disorder, NBC
Recalling the optimism of Expo ’67

It’s hard to believe that it will be forty-five years ago this spring since the opening of Canada’s first World’s Fair – Expo ’67. I have assembled a number of post-card images from that summer (some photos, a few just artist’s...

Published Mon, Feb 20 2012 12:00 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, photography, Québec, Montréal, architecture, Expo '67, universal exposition, moshe safdie
The circular isolation of self – my 1010th post

I have a small collection of turtle ornaments on a book-case. I relate to them, seeing myself personifying some of their characteristics – slow, steady and self-deprecating to a fault, able to withdraw, when threatened, to my own delusional safety...

Published Wed, Sep 26 2012 9:32 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, mental health, bipolar II, stigma, medical update, viral load, blog therapy
AccolAIDS much appreciated!

Healthline editors recently published the final list of their favorite HIV & STD blogs and I’m pleased to let you know that this blog made the list, which can be found here (in no particular order). I am very appreciative of this vote of confidence...

Published Fri, Aug 10 2012 3:38 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, writing, activism, AIDS and HIV, blog therapy, biography/autobiography
Prom Night and Father’s Day

Skimming my home-town newspapers’ web sites I noticed that this is Prom weekend for some of the high schools in the area. Tomorrow is Father’s Day. I’m not sure if the two occasions shared the same weekend in my time. Some quick math...

Published Sat, Jun 16 2012 7:19 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, friendship
Ashley Berges to link with My Journey with AIDS

Not one to scan this blog’s activity logs too often, much less understand them, I was quite chuffed to be contacted by Michelle Lamont, representative of Ashley Berges – author, life coach and radio host in Dallas. She/they apparently find...

Published Mon, Jul 02 2012 3:54 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: writing, childhood trauma, AIDS and HIV, mental health, bipolar II, blog therapy, recovery, biography/autobiography, personal growth, Ashley Berges, life coach
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
I’m being published, on paper even, in a book!

Not just a letter to the editor, nor a link from a blog (not that there’s anything wrong with that), I shall be published in a book – an anthology – to be called Still Here: A Post-Cocktail AIDS Anthology and released some time this...

Published Wed, Jan 02 2008 12:00 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: grief, writing, autobiography, personal journal, AIDS and HIV, health-care, creative arts, life and death
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
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Published Sat, Nov 20 2010 10:58 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography
Sensory memories: coffee, cold and cardboard

What I like about writing, sometimes, is how little it takes (sometimes remember!) to get an idea. This evening a Norman Rockwell-like scene from early childhood came to mind. Because I stopped into a grocery store on my way home? Because it’s cold? Because...

Published Thu, Dec 02 2010 7:34 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, writing, autobiography, A & P, Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company
R.I.P. Emma

(From 04-04-2014) Following a “massive stroke” my beautiful friend of almost exactly fifteen years has left me. Emma (short for Emerald, the colour of her eyes) dropped to one side, sprawled on the floor, and let out a yell worthy of her Siamese...

Published Sun, Apr 13 2014 12:03 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: grief, autobiography, Uncategorized, Pets
The magic of (a) meeting

I am by habit, if not by nature, quite a loner. As an example I often recall the extraordinary lengths I went to in learning my way around London ahead of a trip there with a group of fellow high school students. Why? So I could go out on my own unencumbered...

Published Fri, Nov 19 2010 8:10 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, spirituality, recovery, friendship
‘The Sailors’ Church’

100_5600 Originally uploaded by Kenn Chaplin La Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours (loosely translated as Chapel of Our Lady of Safe-keeping), known as The Sailors’ Church, backs down the hill towards the edge of the Old Port on the St. Lawrence...

Published Sat, May 15 2010 8:49 PM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: Uncategorized
On this International Day Against Homophobia and Trans-phobia

To Head Teacher/Principal Wannabe Carl Glenn, who rarely missed an opportunity to taunt me, terrify me, pit me against his son and my other classmates; To the kids who teased me for the friends I chose; To those who made the forty minute bus ride to and...

Published Mon, May 17 2010 6:58 AM by My journey with AIDS

Filed under: autobiography, childhood trauma, child abuse, activism, AIDS and HIV, sexual orientation, homosexuality, coming out of the closet, fundamentalism, evangelicals, sexual abuse

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Thank you Candy Crowley and “State of the Union”

Recalling the optimism of Expo ’67

The circular isolation of self – my 1010th post

AccolAIDS much appreciated!

Prom Night and Father’s Day

Ashley Berges to link with My Journey with AIDS

1909 picture only tells a fraction of the story

I’m being published, on paper even, in a book!

Unearthing one of my early newspaper appearances

A u t u m n – t h a n k s

Sensory memories: coffee, cold and cardboard

R.I.P. Emma

The magic of (a) meeting

‘The Sailors’ Church’

On this International Day Against Homophobia and Trans-phobia