Gwenn and I recently spoke with Brad from the Staunton News Leader about our experiences as educators, how we approach sex in our relationship and what it was like testing positive for HIV in 1987 in nearby Waynesboro, Virginia. (Staunton is about 10 miles away from...
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Let’s Put an HIV Positive Guy on the Cover of Men’s Health
(CLICK HERE- Vote for Vaughn in "Healthiest Lifestyle" category... you can vote once a day! Thanks!)Hey y'all!A short while back, I wrote a blog post about Vaughn Ripley's attempt to be the first person living with HIV and hemophilia to grace the cover of Men's...
Happy Birthday, Sean Strub
May is full of birthdays featuring beloved people in my life. Just this past Monday, I got to see my big brother and celebrate the day of his arrival.. it was 41 years ago that my parents welcomed him on Mother's Day. This Monday, my best friend and partner, Gwenn,...
National Nurses Week
Every day is Day, every week is a Week, and every month is a Month of one type of recognition or another. It's not a bad thing- there are lots of causes that need more attention than they can get. Especially in this great age of great distractions. I miss a lot of...
The 30/30 Project
To donate to The 30/30 Project click here.Ryan Lewis is best known for his work with Macklemore, which has earned him 4 Grammys. Something that not many people know is that his mother, Julie Lewis, has been living with HIV for 30 years. Alongside Julie,...
Ripley’s You Better Believe It
Vaughn Ripley is a man on a mission. With over 30 years of living with HIV under his bike shorts, the avid cyclist, dad and author of Survivor: One Man's Battle With HIV, Hemophilia and Hepatitis C is ready to tackle his next goal: be the first openly HIV positive man...
Help Honor Ryan White’s Legacy- Takes One Minute
Today marks 24 years since Ryan White's passing at the age of 18. Born with hemophilia, Ryan became the adolescent face of the epidemic when he was kicked out of school for having HIV in the mid 1980s. You can learn more about Ryan by reading this Poz article,...
I’ve Been YouTube’d and Called… a “Faygo?”
YouTube is known just as much for its hateful Comments as it is for its cute cat videos. So of course, the first Comment on my Win Tosh's Car video is... well, check it out for yourself. At first glance, it's just a hateful Comment. But upon further investigation, I...
Trying to Win Daniel Tosh’s (Tosh.O) Car
On a recent episode of Tosh.O, Daniel issued a challenge to viewers: prove you are better than he is by doing something incredible. Record it and send it in for a chance to win his car. (A 2011 Subaru Outback with around 25,000 miles on it.) I can never resist the...
Side Effects- To Change Meds or Not To Change?
Overall, I was happy with the results of my latest labwork. My t-cell count was good and my viral load was undetectable. And since last June, when I started on my paired down daily regimen of Prezista (800 mg) and Norvir (100 mg), I've felt pretty good: a lot less of...