MedWorm.com provides a medical RSS filtering service. Over 6000 RSS medical sources are combined and output via different filters. This feed contains the latest items from the 'My journey with AIDS' source. Tue, 07 Feb 2012 12:56:44 +0100 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5665839&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2012%2F02%2F06%2Fan-authentic-winter-weekend-in-montreal%2F 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 for the first time in many years and, given the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5665839 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 17:39:34 +0100 5665839 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5558632&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F12%2F30%2Fperth-environs-lanark-cty-ontario-canada-december-2011%2F Perth & environs, Lanark Cty., Ontario, Canada – December, 2011, a set on Flickr. It looked like it was going to be a green (more like brown) holiday in eastern Ontario until about 15 cm of sticky snow arrived on December 23rd. Perfect! (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5558632 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 16:51:40 +0100 5558632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5467877&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F12%2F01%2Ftoronto-aids-memorial-519-church-street-community-centre%2F With one eye on the wider world, marking thirty years of AIDS (and hopes that we may be seeing the beginning of the end), my other eye is on memories of friends lost here in Toronto (and hopes that many more may yet survive). (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5467877 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 15:02:23 +0100 5467877 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5439656&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F11%2F22%2Fmedical-update-i-could-do-better-if-good-enough-wasnt-still-good-enough%2F It’s been quite some time since I had the run of tests for HIV and diabetes, in part because of my fear of the results, so today’s news was quite satisfactory with clear room for improvement. My viral load, a test which measures the activity of HIV in my blood, is below levels of present-day [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5439656 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 18:25:36 +0100 5439656 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5399393&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F11%2F10%2Fpig-penn%2F Very puzzling, but markedly less infuriating than the sexual abuse and cover-up scandal shrouding Penn State University, is the thoughtless, pigskin-headed response last night by student mobs to the sackings of the university president and, much more of an issue, the football coach. Now that’s an improvement! Watching a news conference held by the university’s [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5399393 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 19:22:51 +0100 5399393 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5399394&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F11%2F07%2Fpte-thomas-earl-butler-17-march-1896-1-march-1917%2F It’s been over ninety-four years since my paternal grandmother’s brother, Tom, died on the World War One battlefields of France, roughly five weeks before the final  assault on Vimy.  It seemed to me that Grandma bore his death with pain right up until her own death in 1991.  She was already acting as home-maker to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5399394 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 18:01:57 +0100 5399394 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5333989&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F10%2F18%2Frest-in-peace-jamie-hubley%2F “I’m tired of life, really. It’s so hard, I’m sorry, I can’t take it anymore.” “I don’t want my parents to think this is their fault, either. I love my mom and dad. It’s just too hard. I don’t want to wait three more years, this hurts too much.” As carefully as he worded his [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5333989 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 21:24:36 +0100 5333989 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5295819&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F10%2F06%2Fwalking-the-glen-tay-block%2F This time last year, visiting Perth for Thanksgiving, I set out for a walk, the route of which I could easily picture in my mind but the distance (see map)…not so much. It seems an even longer walk to recall, one year later, limited as I am by injury. I was not even beyond the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5295819 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:47:16 +0100 5295819 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5283735&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F10%2F04%2Fbursa-and-not-the-city-in-turkey%2F The ever-increasing pain I have experienced recently now has a name – bursitis. It follows the hip-femur repairs in 2003 and from years of strain on my minimal maximus – gluteus, that is. Yesterday I began physical therapy treatments and learned that we have bursae, at which I inquired, “As in bursitis?”, not knowing what [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5283735 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 16:15:31 +0100 5283735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5272073&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F09%2F29%2Fa-most-memorable-trip-to-london-long-long-ago%2F I have been scanning some photos stored in shoe-boxes and managed to touch up several from a class trip to London which took place during March Break in 1976.  (How fortunate I was – what a privilege – to have been able to go on such a voyage as a high school student!) It was [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5272073 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:16:59 +0100 5272073 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5272074&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F09%2F28%2Fthe-winchester-from-draft-beer-to-coffee-since-before-confederation%2F I did a short double-take walking up Parliament Street today, approaching the former Winchester Hotel. At the sreet-level entrance to what are now apartments upstairs – to the south of Tim Horton’s - a sign says something to the effect “Winchester Gardens – since 1861″.       That would be the landlord’s way of putting a time-stamp [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5272074 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 17:59:06 +0100 5272074 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5249025&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F09%2F19%2Ffollow-up-on-my-aches-and-pains%2F The x-rays (not exactly as pictured) last week were negative for anything untoward. All bones, and metal objects substituting for same reinforcing my femur, are intact. That’s a relief! The aches and pains continue intermittently, however, with suggestions of recovery pointing to physiotherapy or just grinning and bearing it (or grimacing and bearing less weight [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5249025 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 20:13:34 +0100 5249025 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5206806&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F09%2F09%2F4936%2F This post serves as a reminder of what has ailed me in recent days. On the day of Jack Layton’s funeral I spent an inordinate amount of time on my feet, standing in one place, taking pictures, standing in line, etc. A few days later I noticed some pain in my femur, which I could [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5206806 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 16:19:15 +0100 5206806 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5192272&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F29%2Ffinal-tributes-to-jack-layton-in-pictures%2F It was an emotion-packed, life-affirming day. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5192272 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:55:20 +0100 5192272 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5174818&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F29%2Ffinal-tributes-to-jack-layton-in-pictures%2F   It was an emotion-packed, life-affirming day. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5174818 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 19:55:20 +0100 5174818 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5169674&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F27%2Ffinal-tributes-to-jack-layton-in-pictures%2F Click for pictures from Jack Layton’s final journey today from Toronto City Hall, and then Roy Thomson Hall. It was an emotion-packed, life-affirming day. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5169674 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 22:35:20 +0100 5169674 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159631&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F25%2Fthere-are-some-blog-posts-id-like-to-forget-on-returning-to-the-ndp%2F I’ve always tried to make this blog somewhat of a record of my life, however fragmented, warts and all.  Here in the archives is my defiant abandonment of the New Democratic Party for, let’s say, greener pastures.  However right it felt at the time, and for a couple of by-elections and a general election after, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159631 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 23:54:54 +0100 5159631 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159632&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F24%2Fthe-town-of-perth-ontarios-appreciation-of-her-past%2F My heart goes out to the people of Goderich who learned this week how quickly our architectural heritage can be severely damaged or wiped out completely. Having recently returned from a summer visit to my ancestral home (in Canada, at least, say ancestry.ca friends) I am renewed in my delight of how seriously the Town [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159632 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 19:31:39 +0100 5159632 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5159633&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F08%2F23%2Fa-letter-to-canadians-from-the-honourable-jack-layton%2F August 20, 2011 Toronto, Ontario Dear Friends, Tens of thousands of Canadians have written to me in recent weeks to wish me well. I want to thank each and every one of you for your thoughtful, inspiring and often beautiful notes, cards and gifts. Your spirit and love have lit up my home, my spirit, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5159633 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 04:43:59 +0100 5159633 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5069735&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F07%2F27%2Fthere-is-no-hierarchy-in-grief-of-norway-and-amy-winehouse%2F Please read this from Scott Dagostino, whose writing makes me admire the way his mind works. Being someone who might preemptively describe myself as naive (which endears me to world-wise friends and the ne’er do-well-alike), I must say the title of Scott’s post took me in with more than its most obvious sarcasm and led [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5069735 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 19:14:52 +0100 5069735 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=5051085&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F07%2F20%2Fover-400-friends-for-life-to-thank-as-they-cycle-along-the-shores-of-my-gene-pond-river-and-canals%2F There is some hope that this near-historic hot weather will return to “normal hot” by Sunday.  I have no doubt that this will be a great relief to all involved in the annual Friends for Life Bike Rally which leaves Toronto that morning on a six-day, six hundred kilometre ride to Montréal. It was ten [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=5051085 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 01:46:01 +0100 5051085 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4968795&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F24%2Fjoyeux-fte-nationale-du-qubec-or-happy-st-jean-baptiste-day%2F This is the day after school got out for the summer – at least that’s how kids in Québec view it.  June 24 used to be more widely known as Fête de la Saint-Jean, marking the birth of Québec’s patron saint, St. John the Baptist.  Having shrugged off her strong Roman Catholic tradition for secularism [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4968795 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 07:01:22 +0100 4968795 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953268&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F19%2Fnot-pictured%2F View Full Album I am mindful, on this Father’s Day, that I do not have many photographs of Thomas Arnold (“Arnie”) Chaplin.  (The additional ones I do have are wedding party shots with people who might not wish to be published.)  However my memory informs me of many more, in safe-keeping with Mom, from the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953268 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 20:51:16 +0100 4953268 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953269&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F18%2Frustling-the-branches-of-my-old-family-tree%2F You’ve probably seen the advertisements for Ancestry.ca (or dot-com elsewhere). A few weeks ago I decided to give it a test-drive and I must say I’m hooked! The program isn’t doing all the work, mind you, as I leaf through two or three family-specific books that have been largely ignored by other members of the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953269 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 12:53:10 +0100 4953269 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4953270&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F17%2Fa-change-in-mr-gs-eye-exam%2F  Mr. G’s eye exam has been changed again, maybe for the last time, so that the antagonist, though dead for more than a decade, might only be identified by his last initial and the responsibilities he held. (Anyone familiar with the school at the time does not need to have him named.) I’m doing this [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4953270 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 03:01:52 +0100 4953270 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4921681&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F06%2F09%2Ftorontos-distillery-district-a-destination-unto-itself%2F I had occasion to attend a meeting today at the former Gooderham & Worts distillery complex, not having visited “The Distillery District” since shortly after it opened as a pedestrian attraction of shops, art galleries, outdoor sculptures and condos.  It’s close enough that I’m almost certain to spend more time there after today’s experience! View [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4921681 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:51:56 +0100 4921681 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4853107&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F21%2Fearly-morning-late-may%2F   View Full Album   Awake uncharacteristically early I ventured out before sunrise to see what the city looks like well before I am usually ever up. The clock flashed 7 00 the moment I got home. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4853107 Sat, 21 May 2011 16:41:58 +0100 4853107 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4803436&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F10%2Fspring-at-allans-mill-as-previously-seen-on-facebook%2F Scotch Line Cemetery and Allan’s Mill Grant’s Creek doesn’t even make it on to the map (as a tributary of the Tay River) but, as the pictures show, it was rushing at full spring speed a couple of weeks ago, roaring past the former Allan’s Mill.  The country road it is on, bearing the mill’s [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4803436 Tue, 10 May 2011 04:01:44 +0100 4803436 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4797878&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F07%2Fmays-contradictions-2%2F The month of May is one tinged with melancholy for members of my family. On May 4, 2002 my father dropped dead in his garden which, for him, could not have been a more suitable place. Yet he was only seventy-five, a birthday celebration only a few weeks earlier for which the entire family had [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4797878 Sat, 07 May 2011 16:44:23 +0100 4797878 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4780453&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F05%2F03%2Fjune-18-proclaimed-as-pride-day-in-the-town-of-perth-ontario%2F Imagine my delight, and yes pride, to learn that LGBT Lanark County had won its bid for a Pride Day proclamation in Perth for June 18. (This was also the first I’d heard of LGBT Lanark County. Their web site is pretty impressive!) The Perth Courier, and an advertiser-householder known locally as the EMC, both [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4780453 Tue, 03 May 2011 14:59:43 +0100 4780453 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4742607&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F21%2Flicence-to-drive-licence-to-vote%2F When I vote in advance polls this weekend I will not be asked to dip a finger in purple ink.  Armed guards will not be inside or outside the polling station.  My vote will not be influenced by bribes or intimidation.  Sad then, isn’t it, that so many Canadians, having seen the struggles for democracy [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4742607 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 23:14:52 +0100 4742607 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4704873&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F12%2Fandr-gagnon%2F The upright grand piano in our living-room was given a good work-out most days when I was a kid, if not from older brother Craig or me (our sisters never took to it) then most certainly from Mom’s many piano students on weekdays after school, evenings and the occasional Saturday.  Piano music, therefore, is something [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4704873 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 22:42:13 +0100 4704873 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4704874&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F12%2Finaction-on-champlain-bridge-not-just-a-tempting-symbol-against-ottawa-for-pols%2F A quick family story: During the summer of Montréal’s Expo ‘67, far and away Canada’s best centennial project, an aunt and uncle from Portland, Ontario along with a great-aunt from Lancaster, were on their way to our place for the night after seeing a Scottish tattoo at the Autostade on the edge of the Expo [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4704874 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 16:28:52 +0100 4704874 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4693461&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F07%2Fmessiah-the-musical%2F I know, I know – George Frederick Handel’s famous work is actually an Oratorio.  (A musical would require lots of period costumes and at least one big dance number!  Now imagine combining that with Mel Gibson’s gratuitously blood-letting Passion of the Christ.  No, let’s not.) This was the time of year, probably forty years ago, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4693461 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 03:27:48 +0100 4693461 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4684667&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F04%2F06%2Fan-early-political-rally%2F It seemed, in hindsight, to be less of a political rally, such as go on during an election campaign, and more of a small-town welcome to a Prime Minister.  It might well have been both. On the lawn in front of a specially-built stage across from the band-shell, between beautiful Stewart Park and the stately [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4684667 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 08:28:17 +0100 4684667 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4642897&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2F27%2Fwhere-i-am%2F Hibernating almost exclusively in Twitterverse @KennChaplin during Canadian election at the expense of my blog and Facebook…not intentional, just seems inevitable. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4642897 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 21:03:39 +0100 4642897 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4606005&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2F17%2Fmaritime-provinces-of-atlantic-canada-not-exactly-as-shown%2F (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4606005 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:23:35 +0100 4606005 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4600745&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2F15%2Fexperimenting-wth-colours%2F While none of these photos is new the colours and a few other variables are. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4600745 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 03:12:25 +0100 4600745 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4545141&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F03%2F03%2Fmichael-lucas-and-the-pink-washed-liner-notes-of-men-of-israel%2F His fans might be forgiven for not actually knowing his name. Michael Lucas has made millions from gay men who have bought, or otherwise paid to view, one of hs 100+ films – roughly eighty percent of which he has starred in. Lucas touched off a controversy last week when he threatened to pull his [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4545141 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 02:59:55 +0100 4545141 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4525145&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F26%2Fresistance-and-recording-history-through-music-in-palestine%2F Songs from a Lost Homeland, which originally aired on Al Jazeera English last year, is in the programming rotation again this weekend. Is there a song in the west right now with even a small percentage of the punch of these musicians? I hope you get a chance to see the entire documentary. There’s another [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4525145 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 23:46:00 +0100 4525145 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4525146&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F26%2Fmusic-of-the-movement%2F One of the first activists’ songs that had any resonance for me was “Where Have All The Flowers Gone?” (1961) and then “Give Peace A Chance” (1969). Dylan’s “Blowin’ In The Wind” (1963) was an anthem, if ever there was one, and I remember making a connection with “One Tin Soldier” in 1969. While grown-ups [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4525146 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 05:29:00 +0100 4525146 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4512574&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F23%2Fas-libya-and-neighbours-seethe-cpt-reports-on-west-bank-demolitions-by-israel%2F CPTnet 23 February 2011 SOUTH HEBRON HILLS: Israeli military demolishes village of Amniyr Amniyr, South Hebron Hills, West Bank At 5:00 a.m. yesterday morning, the Israeli army, accompanied by members of the Israeli District Coordinating Office, arrived at the village of Amniyr and demolished five tent-houses, two cisterns and the village’s olive trees. The demolitions [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4512574 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 01:08:57 +0100 4512574 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4512575&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F23%2Fback-to-paying-greater-attention%2F When this link Mindfulness and Psychotherapy nudged itself toward my consciousness today on my Facebook page I thought it worth exploring if only because I have too often come down hard on myself for having let slide my mindfulness mediation practice. (Such self-flagellation is, need I say, not part of this discipline – nor, come [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4512575 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 20:59:04 +0100 4512575 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4501760&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F20%2Ftwo-beatles-albums-from-itunes-stir-assorted-memories%2F David Letterman, noting Yoko Ono’s 78th birthday last week, joked that she celebrated by breaking up The Jonas Brothers. Back in the twilight of sixties, perhaps early seventies, a much-appreciated Christmas gift (namely for my older brother Craig but which the rest of us took full advantage of) was a record player. Not just any [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4501760 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 10:00:16 +0100 4501760 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4495379&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F18%2Fawesome-task-or-perhaps-not-bridging-the-perspective-gap%2F Excerpts from my tweets (and a RT) from early this afternoon: Death by daily repression and near-starvation or death by desperate martyrdom via the State responsible? Your choice? #Bahrain #Libya #Yemen MD from #Bahrain: “Pls, pls, where is the #UN; we need the world; ppl are being killed in the streets!” Ambu’s BLOCKED frm #PearlRoundabout [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4495379 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 22:06:06 +0100 4495379 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4470514&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F12%2Fhope-as-verb-noun-andor-feeling%2F Everything I am feeling in this moment is in the context of having watched, via television and Twitter, the roller-coaster of events in Egypt these past 18 days, of having just listened to the Feb. 6 (2011) edition of Tapestry from CBC Radio with Mary Hines, and of having made the seemingly Herculean effort to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4470514 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:03:43 +0100 4470514 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4455433&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F09%2Ftxt-telephone-or-blog-lets-talk-about-mental-illness%2F This is Bell Let’s Talk Day. Multiple Olympic medallist Clara Hughes, lead spokesperson for the campaign, was on CTV News in Toronto today. From among the calls she fielded came this articulate gem, “To kill the pain too often means to kill oneself.” However, and this was Clara’s message, help and hope are available to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4455433 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 19:48:33 +0100 4455433 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4455434&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F09%2Fshelter-from-the-st-valentine%25e2%2599%25a5s-day-maacre%2F Having, hopefully, just paid at least the minimum owing on their Christmas credit card bills, gluttonous consumers are now being cajoled into the can’t-win Valentine’s Day debacle. Take heart…PLEASE! First of all, what are we teaching our kids when we buy them Flat Stanley-sized boxes of Valentine’s Day cards, so intimately perforated along the edges, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4455434 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:36:55 +0100 4455434 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4445972&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F07%2Funpacking-more-personal-baggage%2F Pardon me for the humourless dissecting of my neuroses Have I mentioned before having used, for many years, the esteem-busting mantra “If anyone deserves AIDS, I do!”  (Looking at it now I feel like each word should be italicized for emphasis, rather than just one or two.) What a message: If anyone deserves AIDS, I [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4445972 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 05:21:00 +0100 4445972 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4442091&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F05%2F30-years-out%2F If ever I’ve had a “But for the grace of God, there go I” occasion (even though I have problems with that expression) it would have to have been February 5, 1981 – thirty years ago today. At 11 p.m. that night, more than 150 police carried out simultaneous raids on four of Toronto’s most [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4442091 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:39:02 +0100 4442091 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4438991&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F05%2F30-years-out%2F If ever I’ve had a “But for the grace of God, there go I” occasion (even though I have problems with that expression) it would have to have been February 5, 1981 – thirty years ago today. At 11 p.m. that night, more than 150 police carried out simultaneous raids on four of Toronto’s most [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4438991 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 08:39:02 +0100 4438991 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4436900&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F02%2F04%2Ffeeling-powerless-so-far-away-from-egypt-help-change-the-canadian-governments-response%2F Like so much of the world I have been transfixed on the dramatic events in Egypt, but feeling a little powerless to help – until I read about the Harper government’s response (which, I guess, we shouldn’t be surprised about)! What follows came from the Canadian Peace Alliance. Stephen Harper backs Mubarak’s ‘transition’ plan Contact [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4436900 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 22:07:26 +0100 4436900 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4419372&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F31%2Fwhat-to-call-this-p-c-fs-denial%2F This story from Xtra! Vancouver infuriates me: AIDS groups remove ‘AIDS’ from their names. If “AIDS” still carries too much stigma, which it does, that is what to work on, not re-branding! I do not consider my HIV/AIDS diagnosis to be retractable.  When I had an AIDS-defining infection, cryptosporidiosis, that was very close to killing [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4419372 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 03:37:46 +0100 4419372 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4399759&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F25%2Fthe-shack-allegory-and-empathy-but-forgiveness%2F “I brought a book I think you’ll find interesting,” my cousin said as we sat down for lunch recently, handing me a paperback copy of The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. I will not suggest motives she might have had in giving me this book other than the fact that she knows, perhaps as much [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4399759 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:08:17 +0100 4399759 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4394687&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F25%2Fthe-shack-allegory-and-empathy-but-forgiveness%2F   “I brought a book I think you’ll find interesting,” my cousin said as we sat down for lunch recently, handing me a paperback copy of The Shack by Wm. Paul Young. I will not suggest motives she might have had in giving me this book other than the fact that she knows, perhaps as [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4394687 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 10:08:17 +0100 4394687 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4394688&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F24%2Fa-grand-old-montreal-building-enters-a-new-phase%2F When I read news from over the weekend that another former Montréal banking landmark is up for sale – there’s a wealth of information from this link – I found the photo (below) of “The Canadian Bank of Commerce” which I took a few years ago. (In 1961 it merged with The Imperial Bank of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4394688 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 04:19:13 +0100 4394688 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4389315&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F22%2Fwe-talk-about-hivaids-ht-amanda%2F h/t Amanda (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4389315 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:42:52 +0100 4389315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4386422&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F22%2Fwe-talk-about-hivaids-ht-amanda%2F (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4386422 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:42:52 +0100 4386422 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4382923&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F21%2Fmichael-kimber-is-out-torontoist%2F A really great read from Torontoist: Michael Kimber Is Out. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4382923 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 06:41:40 +0100 4382923 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4361249&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F17%2Fthank-you-candy-crowley-and-state-of-the-union%2F “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,” I said. “Now that we know what it is, we can fix it.” Andrea Ball (Statesman.com) – Jared Loughner and the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4361249 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 21:22:55 +0100 4361249 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4355871&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F16%2Fengaging-more-in-my-mental-health-care%2F The mass shootings in Tucson, and the evolving picture of the mentally deranged man being held responsible, continue to both intrigue and inform me. I eagerly watched three of the Sunday morning news shows: NBC’s “Meet the Press”, ABC’s “This Week” and last, only because I wanted to highlight it, CNN’s “State of the Union” [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4355871 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 04:44:44 +0100 4355871 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4331190&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F10%2Ftheres-enough-insanity-to-go-around%2F Gun control activists are not just concerned about the criminally insane having guns. (Such diagnoses are too often only made after a shoot-’em-up anyway!) Otherwise sane people can act violently, too, and guns just make things that much worse. When I hear criminals dismissed by news-jockies as “crazy”, “unbalanced”, “off”, I sometimes take on those [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4331190 Mon, 10 Jan 2011 05:21:13 +0100 4331190 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4327040&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F09%2Ftheres-enough-insanity-to-go-around%2F Even some of my best friends…can be described as having, at least, a nodding acquaintance with mental illness. While, as far as I know, a police check would not flag me as mentally ill, I probably owe that more to the fact that my only direct personal contact with police has been cordial and no [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4327040 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 21:21:13 +0100 4327040 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4327041&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F08%2Fsarah-palin-incites-stupidity-why-not-worse%2F “If a Muslim put a map on web w/crosshairs on 20 pols, then 1 of them got shot, where would he b sitting right now? Just asking.” (tweet from Michael Moore) I have nothing but best wishes for the victims and families of today’s gun madness in Tucson. Speaking from family experience, the first brain [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4327041 Sun, 09 Jan 2011 02:39:20 +0100 4327041 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4324875&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F08%2Fanother-hard-tumble-on-ice-and-still-i-enjoy-winter%2F Just twelve days after landing ass-down on my wallet in Perth, ice in Toronto claimed me on Friday – only I went down faster and even harder! I was at Riverdale Farm taking pictures of some of the birds and animals there and I went to check out how accessible one of the walkways down [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4324875 Sat, 08 Jan 2011 05:37:33 +0100 4324875 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4309813&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F03%2Frequiem-for-an-old-neglected-empress%2F A banner light for the Yonge-Downtown BIA is framed wth sad irony as water is poured on the former Empress Hotel today.   Oh, your Highness, The Empress Hotel, I didn’t know you, not even your successor The Edison. (Most Torontonians lived elsewhere or were not yet born during your building’s heyday; now your Ryerson [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4309813 Tue, 04 Jan 2011 01:32:36 +0100 4309813 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4305058&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F02%2Fa-piece-o-me-on-the-perth-ice%2F Although there’s been a major melt since, just as my bruises have changed colour, I encountered some very thick and slippery ice in Perth over the holidays. During a post-Christmas walk a patch of ice between Codes Mill and Stewart Park got the better of me. In fact I feel like I left a piece [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4305058 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 20:54:45 +0100 4305058 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4305059&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2011%2F01%2F02%2Fpm-harpers-new-years-toast-to-canadians%2F Stephen Harper has shaken a bottle of champagne sparkling cider, held it against the collective ass of Canadians, and let the cork fly into our nether regions with a monotone “Bonne année Canada, happy new year Canada.” At this time last year Canadians by the thousands held cold weather protests against dictator Harper’s proroguing of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4305059 Sun, 02 Jan 2011 18:00:59 +0100 4305059 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4298764&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F29%2Fit-gets-better-tops-2010-list%2F Dan Savage and husband Terry Miller started something in 2010 that Mark Kelley and the CBC Connect crew put at the top of Connect 10: A  Countdown of the most popular stories online in 2010. Responding to highly-publicized cases of bullying and suicides of gays and lesbians, the “It Gets Better” project was launched with [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4298764 Thu, 30 Dec 2010 03:09:31 +0100 4298764 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4285315&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F23%2Fperth-its-like-black-creek-pioneer-village-but-with-cars%2F There is a move afoot in Perth (Lanark County), Ontario to designate the original town boundaries to encourage its continued preservation. I think it’s a great idea! (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4285315 Thu, 23 Dec 2010 14:31:34 +0100 4285315 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4281498&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F22%2Fpeace%2F Despite impressive hits from Google, I didn’t like the shape and tone of an argument presented here yesterday, ostensibly against PM Harper’s latest cynical Senate appointments but really a tirade against someone not named (yet) so I’ve removed it. I take my leave of Toronto, which I call home (if reluctantly sometimes), and go to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4281498 Wed, 22 Dec 2010 16:40:12 +0100 4281498 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4275551&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F21%2Fsenator-don-meredith%2F One of the first business days after the House of Commons broke for the Christmas recess and Stephen Harper appoints Don Meredith to the PM’s new favourite play-pen, The Senate. Wait! This Don Meredith? Stephen Harper’s cynicism knows no bounds – appointing to the Senate the fifth-place finisher, himself an appointed replacement to the Conservative [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4275551 Tue, 21 Dec 2010 05:36:24 +0100 4275551 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4272496&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F20%2Fa-doggone-christmas-morning%2F It started off like any other Christmas morning.  My two sisters and I were up first, kneeling in front of the tree, keeping a respectful distance for our first assessments, but sliding in ever closer, checking the weight of a few parcels, seeing if there was anything we could guess.  We pointed out the missing [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4272496 Mon, 20 Dec 2010 08:28:49 +0100 4272496 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266136&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F17%2Fa-simple-gesture-over-the-holidays-that-could-make-a-world-of-difference%2F   I know that I was not the only Canadian very proud a few years back when Parliament passed legislation designed to make it easier for generic pharmaceutical companies to ship life-saving AIDS medications, and others, to developing nations of the south. So it was rather shameful to learn that, so far, only one shipment [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266136 Fri, 17 Dec 2010 18:49:11 +0100 4266136 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4266137&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F15%2Ffirst-snow-wednesday-evening%2F   (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4266137 Thu, 16 Dec 2010 04:32:47 +0100 4266137 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4259129&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F14%2Factivists-warmly-received-okay-met-with-mild-bemusement-during-very-cold-die-in-for-bill-c-393%2F It was such a cold walk down to Yonge-Dundas Square this morning I was glad to be able to walk the full block south from Gerrard to Gould Streets through the corridors of Jorgenson Hall at Ryerson University. I was dressed for the outdoors reminiscent of my childhood in Quebec.  Fluorescent red earmuffs, attached to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4259129 Tue, 14 Dec 2010 06:20:09 +0100 4259129 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4259130&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F13%2Fa-ps-chapter-11-and-my-chapter-1%2F A & P, the Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company, is being ahem reorganized. The company’s Chapter 11 filing today is juxtaposed in my mind closer to Chapter 1 of my life. The biting cold wind of this mid-December day reminds me of the A & P of my childhood.  (You might have read a [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4259130 Mon, 13 Dec 2010 20:49:06 +0100 4259130 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4253397&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F12%2Fthe-re-activation-of-an-aids-activist%2F While no one could say that I had ever completely stopped my AIDS activism I have, I would suggest, limited myself in recent years to writing or speaking about it on a smaller scale. It was consistent, determined protests – some of which I was a part of – that led to government speeding up [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4253397 Sun, 12 Dec 2010 19:45:55 +0100 4253397 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4251234&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F11%2Fdefying-the-christmas-based-economy%2F Were it not for Christmas, we hear constantly, many retailers would not make it through a year.  The exploited workers of China, whom we have increasingly employed since local manufacturing jobs became of secondary concern to our finding cheap goods, now make most of our clothes and gadgets (luxury and otherwise).  Their jobs are secure [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4251234 Sat, 11 Dec 2010 20:25:24 +0100 4251234 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4245490&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F09%2Fdie-for-access-to-generic-aids-meds-in-the-poorest-of-countries-it-wont-kill-you%2F Over the lunch hour this coming Monday the Bill C-393 Student Coalition, along with members of AIDS ACTION NOW and other allies, will join in creative protest in support of vital legislation before Canada’s Parliament. Bill C-393 is designed to reform CAMR (Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime), the legislation passed back in the dying days [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4245490 Thu, 09 Dec 2010 13:37:35 +0100 4245490 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4241909&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F08%2Fya-had-to-know-id-have-a-true-john-lennon-story-of-my-own-didntcha%2F I just wouldn’t bet on it ever making it into The Complete History of Music. On the evening of December 8, 1980, a Monday, I had attended the regular weekly meeting of St. Catharines City Council in my capacity as a news reporter for a local radio station. I returned to the office, housed in [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4241909 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 18:06:53 +0100 4241909 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4241910&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F08%2Fmusic-therapy-after-which-you-may-need-some-without-the-music%2F I cannot remember a time when music was not a vital part of my life.  Music is in my genes, especially from my mother’s side of the family, with my grandparents having been matched up in the early 1920s as a violinist/fiddler being accompanied by his pianist.  What I wouldn’t give for a cell-phone video [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4241910 Wed, 08 Dec 2010 15:12:55 +0100 4241910 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4238094&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F07%2Fobservations-from-buckstars-coffee-shop%2F I’m home from picking up prescription refills to paint a story-picture.  Note to self (the umpteenth): always, always carry a pen and paper! Having dropped off written prescriptions for repeats of my head meds, I walk briskly in the fresh cold wind over to the Cabbagetown location of Buckstars to wait.  A grande Americano should [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4238094 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 22:20:20 +0100 4238094 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4233361&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F06%2Ffor-mark-dailey-a-tweet%2F RIP Mark Dailey – 1st hrd read’g v/o of film intros o’nite whl I @ undiscl. TO loctns; + incl’d in acct of my ’03 smash http://tiny.cc/a41ia (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4233361 Tue, 07 Dec 2010 00:26:43 +0100 4233361 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4233362&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F06%2Fdecember-6-1989-universite-de-montreal%25e2%2580%2599s-ecole-polytechnique%2F Fourteen women…killed en masse because they were women Geneviève Bergeron, 21, was a second year scholarship student in civil engineering. Hélène Colgan, 23, was in her final year of mechanical engineering and planned to pursue her master’s degree. Nathalie Croteau, 23, was in her final year of mechanical engineering. Barbara Daigneault, 22, was a teaching [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4233362 Mon, 06 Dec 2010 05:57:48 +0100 4233362 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4233363&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F05%2Fmemories-revisited%2F Holiday stories are nothing if not repetitive. These memories crossed my mind again today so, after double-checking to see that I had covered mostly everything, I’m left only to re-post! From 13 December 2009, I give you Christmas church candles and Coca-Cola chuckles. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4233363 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:03:05 +0100 4233363 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4230284&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F05%2Fmemories-revisited%2F Holiday stories are nothing if not repetitive. These memories crossed my mind again today so, after double-checking to see that I had covered mostly everything, I’m left only to re-post! From 13 December 2009, I give you Christmas church candles and Coca-Cola chuckles. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4230284 Sun, 05 Dec 2010 15:03:05 +0100 4230284 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4229246&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F03%2Fthank-you-lpn-to-rn-bridge%2F I know I’ve been on worse lists! Top 50 Blogs About HIV and AIDS (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4229246 Sat, 04 Dec 2010 03:40:39 +0100 4229246 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4225565&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F03%2Fthe-fear-factor%2F During a lunch meeting with friends today someone spoke of past states of generalized anxiety which professionals often tried, unsuccessfully, to pin down – fear of flying, fear of social situations, “What are you afraid of?” That didn’t work. Then, my friend recounted, while sitting with people she didn’t know she blurted out her frustrations [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4225565 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 19:39:30 +0100 4225565 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4225566&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F02%2Fimagin%2F (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4225566 Fri, 03 Dec 2010 03:34:52 +0100 4225566 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220414&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fambulance-chasers-aside-world-aids-day-provides-an-important-focus%2F By “ambulance chasers” I mean media who wish they could report on the illness, the meds, a cure and some drama all in about 52 seconds.  And they try. This year, rather than run to the annual UNAIDS report on HIV prevalence (good news and bad news as usual), I invested some emotional energy in [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220414 Thu, 02 Dec 2010 02:32:00 +0100 4220414 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220415&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fcelebs-with-900-sunglasses-and-coke-in-their-pants-can-be-silent-today-if-they-want-not-me%2F I’m all for vaccuous celebrities shutting their yaps today, especially as a fundraiser, but if I don’t tweet or “poke” or “like” it won’t be because I’ve gone silent for World AIDS Day. How many years passed before those in power, like Reagan for example, even mentioned AIDS? And Canada continues to sell out on [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220415 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 11:04:37 +0100 4220415 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220416&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day-2010-by-aless-piper%2F 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. Tony Kushner wrote in the Playwright’s Notes for Act 2 of Angels in America – Perestroika that Harold Bloom translated [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220416 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:00:10 +0100 4220416 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220417&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day-2010-collected-stories-4-the-prequel-to-my-journey-with-aids-and-more-by-kenn-chaplin%2F These days I still only started to think about trying to get a meal in my stomach once an almost painful hunger came upon me, seemingly out of nowhere, on this occasion at about three in the afternoon. I had just been to Sunnybrook Hospital where I was part of a clinical trial combining AZT [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220417 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:16:44 +0100 4220417 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4220418&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day-2010-stories-3-kim-and-alex-by-jpk%2F 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 is that she blessed the world with her [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4220418 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 08:13:47 +0100 4220418 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4214404&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day-2010-stories-2-this-friend-living-with-aids-who-gave-me-so-much-by-dominique-gauvreau-google-translation-edited-by-kc%2F Each author 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. This is the World AIDS Day, 2010 entry in Dominique Gauvreau’s blog Rencontre sous le Chêne de Mamré (Meeting under [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4214404 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 07:49:35 +0100 4214404 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4214405&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F12%2F01%2Fworld-aids-day-2010-stories-1-excerpts-from-the-prologue-of-crooked-road-straight-the-awakening-of-aids-activist-linda-jordan-by-tina-a-brown%2F Each author 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. AIDS didn’t become important to me until somebody I knew died. I imagine that is also the case for most [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4214405 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 05:50:32 +0100 4214405 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4203281&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F25%2Fa-call-out-for-stories-yes-you%2F First of all, this is not a contest.  Every story will be published on my blog (and re-posted to Facebook & Twitter via links) in the order in which I receive them. You may send them to me within the body of an email, or by attaching a document, and I will post them.  I [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4203281 Fri, 26 Nov 2010 03:17:03 +0100 4203281 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4197295&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F24%2Fbalderson-cemetery-revisited%2F I like visiting cemeteries, at least on those occasions when I am not there in mourning.  ‘Twas ever thus, be it the Protestant cemetery two blocks from our church in Salaberry-de-Valleyfield, Elmwood Cemetery in  Perth where several Chaplins (and even an older, related “Chaplain”) are buried and, much more often recently, Scotch Line Cemetery on [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4197295 Wed, 24 Nov 2010 09:10:19 +0100 4197295 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4197296&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F23%2Ffor-betty-ann%2F   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 of programs I’ve successively tried to employ in writing [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4197296 Tue, 23 Nov 2010 11:03:23 +0100 4197296 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4190425&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F21%2Fce-grand-week-end-de-sport-a-montreal%2F 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 fan when there are opportunities to cheer on Montréal against Toronto.) (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4190425 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 12:10:50 +0100 4190425 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4190426&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F21%2Fa-u-t-u-m-n-t-h-a-n-k-s%2F (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4190426 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 06:58:29 +0100 4190426 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4190427&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F20%2Fa-veritable-piece-of-music-history-heads-down-the-highway%2F The family piano is on its way to southern Ontario from Perth, having been wrapped in quilts with care this morning, under Mom’s watchful eye, and loaded into a moving van.  It is about to find another appreciative home at my sister’s where my young niece and nephew are at a good age to learn [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4190427 Sun, 21 Nov 2010 03:23:03 +0100 4190427 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4187025&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F19%2Fthe-magic-of-a-meeting%2F 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 by group decisions [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4187025 Sat, 20 Nov 2010 04:10:48 +0100 4187025 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4168144&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F15%2Fan-aids-day%2F 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 eaten anything solid since mid-morning, and the bathroom [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4168144 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 23:31:50 +0100 4168144 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4168145&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F15%2Ftown-crier-silenced%2F ‘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 remember this man’s voice as he drove around town making paid announcements via loudspeakers on the [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4168145 Mon, 15 Nov 2010 06:02:21 +0100 4168145 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4164661&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F13%2Fan-historic-church-building-lives-into-the-future-with-the-past%2F Crédit-photo: Massicotte et Dignard Une traduction ( +/- ) suit. 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, about half the height of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4164661 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 23:50:54 +0100 4164661 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4163023&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F12%2Fstrive-to-be-happy%2F “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-size as above, was available wherever  Rolling Stones or Led Zeppelin posters were [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4163023 Sat, 13 Nov 2010 03:42:29 +0100 4163023 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4155353&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F11%2Fi-remember-how-grandmas-memories-stung-her%2F 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 five weeks before the final assault on Vimy. My [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4155353 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 07:04:43 +0100 4155353 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4152150&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F11%2F09%2Fperths-former-library-inspired-by-stately-bank-building%2F 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 destroyed, in a fire in 1980.  A new library was built a [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4152150 Tue, 09 Nov 2010 20:21:24 +0100 4152150 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4119517&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F29%2Fclint-i-like-it-when-gays-die-mccance-speaks-to-cnns-anderson-cooper-brain-farts-maybe%2F I’m keeping this post open to add more developments.  Suffice to say, to begin, that Clint McCance’s so-called apology on AC 360 is not going over very well.  (As I wrote at the time it seemed like Anderson had to pull out the nature of his wrongs.  They weren’t forthcoming from McCance himself.) Tonight I’m [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4119517 Sat, 30 Oct 2010 02:02:00 +0100 4119517 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4119518&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F28%2Fmedical-update-great-news%2F 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 back a fair bit in a relatively short [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4119518 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 16:45:18 +0100 4119518 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4119519&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F28%2Fkodak-moments-or-scenes%2F     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 chose? Here’s what I wrote with my submission: When I think [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4119519 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 11:25:28 +0100 4119519 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4119520&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F28%2Fclint-mccance-a-man-who-should-be-run-out-of-arkansas%2F 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 and then had a couple of great guests, including the whistle-blower: A screen-shot of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4119520 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 07:04:02 +0100 4119520 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4105940&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F26%2Fa-facebook-friend-writes-please-tell-the-story-behind-this-picture%2F Happy to do so, Barbara, particularly because I have so little to lose with this tale ever-imprinted on my Facebook history.  I’m not getting any younger, however,  so my memory may not be one hundred percent.  Halloween, preceded as it is a few days earlier by my birthday, prompted me this week to muse about [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4105940 Tue, 26 Oct 2010 06:31:00 +0100 4105940 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4098330&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F20%2Fsticks-and-stones%25e2%2580%25a6%2F I’d imagine it must be painful for a parent to have to impart to their children those familiar words, “Sticks and stones may break my bones but names will never hurt me.” I was certainly skeptical. Long before summoning the courage to come out to my parents at age 21, I had known that I [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4098330 Thu, 21 Oct 2010 00:15:54 +0100 4098330 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4082274&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F19%2Fchanging-my-mind-could-change-yours-about-mental-illness-and-margaret-trudeau%2F 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 is happy, and we know to expect several of the deeply sad climaxes, but [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4082274 Tue, 19 Oct 2010 21:50:31 +0100 4082274 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4077472&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F17%2Fview-from-roof-top-near-high-park-toronto%2F (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4077472 Sun, 17 Oct 2010 20:53:00 +0100 4077472 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4074339&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F15%2Fbrother-andr%2F Millions of Roman Catholic pilgrims climb the 283 steps to St. Joseph’s Oratory – praying on their knees. In the early days of my AIDS diagnosis I used to go to a “healing mass” at Our Lady of Lourdes on Sherbourne Street here in Toronto.  I can’t say I wholeheartedly believed there was much hope [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4074339 Fri, 15 Oct 2010 06:50:00 +0100 4074339 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4027305&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F10%2F03%2Fa-stroke-of-spirit%2F Jill Bolte Taylor, author of “My Stroke of Insight” and featured in a popular TED lecture, was this week’s guest on CBC Radio’s Tapestry program. I still get goose-bumps listening to her story, in which she “experienced that absence of experience which becomes one of bliss” as I shared about a year-and-a-half or so ago. [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4027305 Sun, 03 Oct 2010 17:42:12 +0100 4027305 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4023087&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F30%2Fperhaps-my-most-difficult-topic-yet-for-tyler-clementi%2F Let’s talk about suicide! The single-most read entry of this blog – ever – is seeing an up-tick in hits as the one year anniversary of this local tragedy looms large. Today, with the recovery of his body, social media are decrying the suicide, and circumstances behind it, of Rutgers University student Tyler Clementi, a [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4023087 Fri, 01 Oct 2010 01:45:05 +0100 4023087 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=4003057&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F27%2Funholy-hubris%2F Crooks & Liars blogger karoli got it so right when she wrote, “If you have had the misfortune of being one of those kids who was sexually victimized by an adult, the one thing you know is the script. You know it by heart, and even after years of therapy and recovery and acceptance that [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=4003057 Mon, 27 Sep 2010 04:45:00 +0100 4003057 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3942978&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F08%2Ftrying-to-articulate-however-inadequately-my-spirituality%2F Anyone from “the rooms” who’s heard me talk about 2, 3, 11 and others, especially since my comeback following Craig’s death, knows that I’m having trouble – at best – articulating my beliefs regarding spiritual matters and – at worst – am profoundly confused. The way from my heart to my head, or vice versa, [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3942978 Wed, 08 Sep 2010 05:41:00 +0100 3942978 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3942979&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F07%2Fhiv-and-friends%2F “HIV and friends” as in HIV and other diagnoses which have been visited upon me and/or HIV and how friends can, and do, help – with apologies to my favourite English teachers for lack of sentence structure. What physically ails me most are HIV and diabetes type deux. After-effects of the broken femur and wrist [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3942979 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 20:35:50 +0100 3942979 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3934591&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F09%2F05%2Ffirst-days-of-school%2F I know I’m not the only one to feel some sort of generalized angst about the first day of school – even though it was thirty years ago last May that I graduated college!  As Labour Day passes a temporary sense of dread settles over me.           Gault Elementary School (above [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3934591 Sun, 05 Sep 2010 07:29:00 +0100 3934591 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3899597&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F24%2Fcanadas-19th-century-canals-continue-to-be-make-work-projects%2F The Rideau Canal, 175 years young last year, has a kid brother not too far away named The Tay Canal.  Far smaller than the Rideau, which winds its way from Ottawa to Kingston, the Tay extends just 9.8 kilometers from Beveridge Bay on Lower Rideau Lake to a pretty turning basin in the heart of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3899597 Tue, 24 Aug 2010 11:17:00 +0100 3899597 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3891802&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F08%2F22%2Fa-streetcar-stop-reunion-brings-back-memories%2F The other night, my arms heavy with groceries, I heard my name being called at the corner of Yonge and Carlton. That’s a very busy corner so this is definitely a ‘small world’ story. He told me, as I didn’t immediately recognize him, that he was Pete Bailey from The Standard (in St. Catharines) and [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3891802 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 00:37:10 +0100 3891802 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3780516&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F07%2F22%2Ffussin-fessin-and-feelin-better%2F The drug holiday hasn’t been as long this time. I just hope, as my specialist said the first time, that I still have “horseshoes up (my) ass” (medical-speak for good fortune) with no irreversible consequences. No doubt there’s a reason my blogging hasn’t been as prolific as usual lately. I cracked open some fear and [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3780516 Fri, 23 Jul 2010 01:55:04 +0100 3780516 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3780517&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F07%2F22%2Freally-really-really%2F Praying over bread and wine (or grape juice) used to make them the body and blood of Christ – literally, according to the faithful. Then someone dressed Jesus in a white wafer and, poof, a melt-in-your-mouth Christ. And, while I could see how it would upset the modern-day Pharisees, such a fuss over spontaneously giving [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3780517 Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:18:52 +0100 3780517 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3666162&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F16%2Fif-video-killed-the-radio-star%2F All-news networks are killing broadcast journalism. So, of course, we need this. Watch Newsworld CBC News Network or CTV News Channel and you’ll see what I call news jockeys – personalities, like the disc jockeys of radio days, who intro and extro songs news of the moment, as told by someone else. Bonus points apparently [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3666162 Wed, 16 Jun 2010 05:19:49 +0100 3666162 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3625728&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F03%2Fclearly-hazel-mccallion-has-been-hanging-around-don-cherry-too-much%2F CBC News – Toronto – Police re-investigate abuse claims in Mississauga. First of all, why is “hazing” not treated as the bodily, sometimes sexual, assault that it clearly is?  Not criminal?  C’mon! Hurricane Hazel’s best-before date has long since passed.  She’s clearly staying on as Mayor only to break some kind of geezer record and [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3625728 Thu, 03 Jun 2010 13:17:52 +0100 3625728 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3621912&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F06%2F02%2Fthe-world-cup-cbc-and-soccer4hope%2F What an inspiration to see the CBC’s Scott Russell on The National Tuesday night with his profile of Soccer4Hope! (It’s at the 36-minute mark of the video) which probably only stays up until Wednesday night’s broadcast. S4H looks very promising, modeled as it is after its basketball counterpart Hoops4Hope in bringing together the issues of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3621912 Wed, 02 Jun 2010 07:33:58 +0100 3621912 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3610471&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F28%2Fas-seen-on-facebook-from-others-who-like-me-remember-1981%2F Open Letter to Pride Toronto from founders of Pride in 1981 As founding members of the Toronto Lesbian and Gay Pride Day Committee, and people involved in organizing the first Pride event in Toronto at the end of June in 1981, we stand totally opposed to the decision of the current Toronto Pride Committee to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3610471 Sat, 29 May 2010 01:00:23 +0100 3610471 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3595835&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F24%2Fto-the-pride-toronto-brain-trust%2F I shall not be returning the calls of your volunteer recruitment team, at least one of which I’ve already received. Even if you don’t agree with Desmond Tutu or Jimmy Carter, both of whom use the term “Israeli apartheid”, doesn’t the censorship, the lobbying and the impugning of motives (with the incendiary, inappropriate charge of [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3595835 Tue, 25 May 2010 01:25:31 +0100 3595835 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3590462&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F23%2Fbeaten-senseless-windsor-man-adds-his-story-to-the-archives-of-insane-gay-bashings%2F I’m angry, I’m sad, angry, sad, angry, sad…   The Windsor Star’s account includes a video of the young victim, who clearly understands the value of personal story-telling, holding a press conference to describe the beating he endured and some of the deeper meanings, however ironic. I heard about this yesterday but only started to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3590462 Sun, 23 May 2010 11:58:35 +0100 3590462 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3577576&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F18%2Fseeing-montreal-up-close%2F    View Full Album I started off pacing myself, but Montréal is such a great city for walking that I soon lost track of time and covered more ground, over two days, than I might have imagined I could. (I did take the Métro from Lionel-Groulx to Peel stations Tuesday afternoon and from Lionel-Groulx to [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3577576 Tue, 18 May 2010 23:22:52 +0100 3577576 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3573892&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F17%2Fon-this-international-day-against-homophobia-and-trans-phobia%2F 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 often made the forty minute bus ride to and from high school each day so frightening; [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3573892 Mon, 17 May 2010 13:58:15 +0100 3573892 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3570024&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F17%2Fon-this-international-day-against-homophobia-and-trans-phobia%2F 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 from high school each day so frightening; To [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3570024 Mon, 17 May 2010 13:58:15 +0100 3570024 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568037&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F16%2Flachine-canal-now-a-recreational-gem-2%2F Lachine Canal looking east towards Montréal’s Vieux-Port Originally uploaded by Kenn Chaplin One of the areas of Montréal which, until this most recent trip, I had not explored is the ever-evolving lands adjacent to the former Lachine Canal. The closest I have come to it regularly is as a passenger aboard any VIA Rail train [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568037 Sun, 16 May 2010 12:28:47 +0100 3568037 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568038&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F16%2Fsquare-st-louis%2F Originally uploaded by Kenn Chaplin With many beautiful homes ringing its perimeter, and arterial streets such as Prince-Arthur nearby, Square St-Louis is a park with bohemian characteristics within walking distance of L’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM), civic and provincial government offices, as well as several campuses of downtown hospitals. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568038 Sun, 16 May 2010 11:28:03 +0100 3568038 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568039&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F15%2Fthe-sailors-church%2F Notre-Dame-de-Bon-Secours 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 Montréal’s Old Port on the St. Lawrence River. It is almost as striking from the rear with the large statue of Mary greeting sailors [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568039 Sun, 16 May 2010 03:49:10 +0100 3568039 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568040&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F15%2Fbixi-rocks%2F Bixi Originally uploaded by Kenn Chaplin        Bixi is the name of the outfit which rents bicycles at highly visible stands throughout Montréal.  By buying any of a variety of memberships, residents and tourists alike can pick up a bike within a short distance of almost anywhere and drop it off at another such [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568040 Sun, 16 May 2010 03:02:25 +0100 3568040 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3568041&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F15%2Fmay-in-montreal%2F For my complete series of photos taken this week (note the Creative Commons copyright) just click here. (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3568041 Sat, 15 May 2010 22:08:03 +0100 3568041 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3556333&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F12%2Ffor-simon-a-mostly-sunny-spring-day-in-montreal%2F (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3556333 Wed, 12 May 2010 05:54:36 +0100 3556333 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3549521&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F09%2Fwhen-mothers-day-isnt-happy%2F Mom insisted that I send no Mother’s Day flowers this year.  I can’t blame her if she can’t look at the designated special day the same, not yet anyway.  The cruelty this year, in particular, stems from the fact that this second Sunday in May, May 9,  was the day in 2007 when Mom’s first-born, Craig, died of his [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3549521 Mon, 10 May 2010 01:00:32 +0100 3549521 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3538354&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F05%2F05%2Fvive-les-pietons-montreal%2F 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, interesting neighbourhoods, the natural beauty of the mountain park and [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3538354 Thu, 06 May 2010 03:39:27 +0100 3538354 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3519650&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F30%2Fit-was-seven-years-ago-today-in-the-wee-hours-of-the-morning%2F 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 along Carlton Street, the music of Chopin still [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3519650 Fri, 30 Apr 2010 16:06:42 +0100 3519650 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3511713&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F28%2Fmy-last-visit-with-craig-three-years-ago-today%2F 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. He is in very bad shape, from our [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3511713 Wed, 28 Apr 2010 14:53:34 +0100 3511713 http://www.medworm.com/index.php?rid=3502952&cid=s_35247_135_f&fid=35247&url=http%3A%2F%2Fmyjourneywithaids.wordpress.com%2F2010%2F04%2F24%2Fthe-happy-and-the-dreadfully-sad-of-april-24%2F 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 skills but, as a gesture, I just think French-language cards for him would be nice. April [...] (Source: My journey with AIDS) My journey with AIDS blogs http://www.medworm.com/rss/comments.php?id=3502952 Sat, 24 Apr 2010 18:07:38 +0100 3502952