My Journey with AIDS

Clint McCance is a man who should be run out of Arkansas

This idiot’s 15 minutes (I don’t expect he’d know what that means) will, hopefully, soon be over but surely not before he loses his elected job on the Midland, Arkansas school board. Anderson Cooper set the story up this way last evening: It turns out...

Published Thu, Oct 28 2010 12:04 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, child abuse, politics, YouTube, mental health, sexual orientation, homosexuality, queer, social conservatives, bullying, homophobia, youth suicide, Clint McCance, Midland Arkansas

Kodak moments or scenes

View Full Album I am sticking my neck out and entering a photo contest. Actually I’ve already sent my entry in. Would I be jinxing my chances if I told you which of these five finalists, from my extensive collection, I...

Published Thu, Oct 28 2010 4:25 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: Uncategorized

Medical update: great news!

When I last checked in about my health I had received some upsetting, though not surprising, results after being off my HIV meds for a few months. Six weeks or so later, the results are in after being back on everything and my immune system has bounced...

Published Thu, Oct 28 2010 9:45 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: AIDS and HIV, mental health, medical update, viral load, CD-4, type-II diabetes

Clint “I-like-it-when-gays-die” McCance speaks to CNN’s Anderson Cooper: brain farts maybe?

Thursday night AC360’s Anderson Cooper interviewed the Vice-President of Midland School District in Arkansas whose Facebook rants against gays, “fags”, “queers”, the recent rash of publicized gay suicides of five young men and boys, and his mocking of...

Published Thu, Oct 28 2010 11:32 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: youth, activism, YouTube, sexual orientation, gender, homosexuality, social conservatives, homophobia, youth suicide, restorative justice

Perth’s former library inspired by stately bank building

The Perth Scientific and Literary Society, founded in 1906 in order to apply for a Carnegie Foundation grant, built a library in the Beaux Arts style a year later. It was a landmark public building until it was severely damaged, and its collection...

Published Tue, Nov 09 2010 12:21 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: photography, Perth, Toronto, architecture

I remember how Grandma’s memories stung her

Although I have never been in Perth to mark Remembrance Day, my grandmother felt the loss of her brother deeply, year-round, decades after the fact when I was a kid. My Great-Uncle Tom was killed in 1917 on the World War One battlefields of France roughly...

Published Wed, Nov 10 2010 11:04 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, VILLERS-AU-BOIS, Remembrance Day, World War I

Strive to be happy

“The universe is unfolding as it should” came up in a discussion this evening and it reminded me of the place, literally and figuratively, “Desiderata” had in my home growing up – particularly through the 1970s. A sheet of faux parchment paper, poster...

Published Fri, Nov 12 2010 7:42 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: spirituality, poetry, Desiderata

An historic church building lives into the future with the past

Crédit-photo: Massicotte et Dignard That glass atrium between the church on the left and the social hall on the right was, until renovations began, an empty space most of the time – except in the weeks leading up to Christmas when a pre-fabricated wall...

Published Sat, Nov 13 2010 3:50 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, spirituality, United Church of Canada, church, architecture, Eglise Unie de Valleyfield United Church, Musée de Société des Deux-Rives, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield QC

Town Crier silenced

‘The voice of Valleyfield’ has died and, while I hadn’t given him any thought for many, many years happening on to this story in The Gazette brought back great memories. Anyone of a certain age from Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Québec will...

Published Sun, Nov 14 2010 10:02 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: media, autobiography, Québec, The Gazette (Montreal), Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Antonin (Tony) Guevremont

An “AIDS day”

I can’t remember who first coined the phrase (and whether he’s still alive), or where I heard it, but I’m having an “AIDS day” – not as bad as they used to be, mind you, but unmistakable all the same. My stomach feels bloated, despite not having...

Published Mon, Nov 15 2010 3:31 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: autobiography, AIDS and HIV, medical update

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

A veritable piece of music history heads down the highway

The family piano is on its way to southern Ontario from Perth, having been wrapped in quilts with care this morning and loaded into a moving van. It is about to find an appreciative home at my sister’s where my young niece and nephew will hopefully...

Published Sat, Nov 20 2010 7:23 PM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, youth, autobiography, Perth, church, Salaberry-de-Valleyfield QC, Heintzman Pianos, Ontario

A u t u m n – t h a n k s

Ce grand week-end de sport à Montréal

Saturday: “Le Canadien blanchit les Maple Leafs 2-0″ dit La Presse Sunday (Alouettes vs. Argonauts): “De la tension dans l’air” No translation required. (You’ll have noticed I’m only a sports...

Published Sun, Nov 21 2010 4:10 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: Montréal, Toronto

For Betty Ann

I’m the only one, I dare say, who can appreciate at this very moment – Tuesday, November 23, 2010 at 04 04 06 01 EST – both the frustration and the ‘been punk’d’ feeling I have after experiencing countless “(Not Responding)” messages from any number...

Published Tue, Nov 23 2010 3:03 AM by My journey with AIDS...and more!

Filed under: family, autobiography, AIDS and HIV, photography, spirituality, YouTube, sexual orientation, friendship

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