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An authentic winter weekend in Montréal by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 pictur ... Read on »

Perth & environs, Lanark Cty., Ontario, Canada – December, 2011 by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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! Read on »

Toronto AIDS Memorial, 519 Church Street Community Centre by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 ... Read on »

Medical update: I could do better if ‘good enough’ wasn’t still good enough by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 cl ... Read on »

Pig Penn – warped perspectives in the Penn State scandal by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS Very puzzling, but markedly less infuriating than the sexual abuse and cover-up scandal shrouding Penn State University, is the thoughtless, pigskin-headed response ... Read on »

Pte. Thomas Earl Butler: 17 March 1896 – 1 March 1917 by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 ... Read on »

Rest in Peace, Jamie Hubley by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS “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 an ... Read on »

Walking the Glen Tay Block by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 ... Read on »

Bursa – and not the city in Turkey! by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS The ever-increasing pain I have experienced recently now has a name – bursitis. I’ve narrowed down the cause to being on my feet or, alternatively, sitti ... Read on »

A most memorable trip to London long, long ago by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 ... Read on »

The Winchester – from draft beer to coffee since before Confederation by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 apartment ... Read on »

Follow-up on my aches and pains by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 in ... Read on »

Aches and pains of fractures of old by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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, standi ... Read on »

Final tributes to Jack Layton in pictures (and now with real pictures!) by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS It was an emotion-packed, life-affirming day. Read on »

Final tributes to Jack Layton in pictures by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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. ... Read on »

There are some blog posts I’d like to forget – on returning to the NDP by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 ... Read on »

The Town of Perth, Ontario’s appreciation of her past by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 ... Read on »

A letter to Canadians from the Honourable Jack Layton by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 an ... Read on »

There is no hierarchy in grief: Of Norway and Amy Winehouse by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 (whi ... Read on »

Over 400 “Friends for Life” to thank as they cycle the shores of my gene pond, river,... by Kenn C. Posted in: Blog Posts in HIV & AIDS 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 involve ... Read on »

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