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 …
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My journey with AIDS...and more!: There is no hierarchy in grief: Of Norway and Amy Winehouse
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 …
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Over 400 “Friends for Life” to thank as they cycle along the shores of my gene pond, river, and canals!
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 …
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Joyeux Fête nationale du Québec or Happy St-Jean Baptiste Day!
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. Havi…
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Not pictured
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 mem…
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Rustling the branches of my old family tree
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 thre…
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: A change in “Mr. G’s eye exam”
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…
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Toronto’s Distillery District a destination unto itself
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 c…
Continue readingMy journey with AIDS...and more!: Early morning, late May
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.
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