Happy New Year! What better way to splash back into blogging in the new year than with a Labtest Contest? If you're new here, the rules are below. The concept is simple, every 4-6 months I have to get blood drawn to see how my immune system is doing. Instead...
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Happy Holidays and New Year (Last Post of 2011!)
A very happy holiday to you, and a happy December if you're an atheist. Whatever you dig, I'm just too tickled that you check in on me from time to time here on this blog. Lately I haven't been the updating machine that I was in January when I did the "Blog Post...
Ryan White Would Have Turned 40 Today
Ryan White, the AIDS educator who rose to prominence after his public battle to attend public school in the 1980's, passed to spirit at age 18 in 1990, years before treatments were successful. Had he lived, he would have turned 40 years old today. We all owe this...
HIV Positive Student Denied by Private Boarding School
The Milton Hershey School, a private boarding school that provides an educational opportunity for disadvantaged teenagers, has denied a potential student based solely on his HIV status. A lawsuit has been filed, and the story was given legs due to the lawsuit's...
Home for the… Holiday?
Tomorrow is World AIDS Day. Aside from two years ago- when I got sick while out on the road during World AIDS Week and had fly home instead of across the country- I haven't really been home on World AIDS Day in any shape or form to enjoy it in about a decade. Today...
An Unforgettable Thanksgiving Eve
Sitting on my couch, watching Jake manage the after effects of a house party gone wrong thanks to some channel's shared love of my favorite movie, Sixteen Candles. Today is Thanksgiving Day, and I'm thankful that my own "house party" couldn't have gone off better...
11-11-11 About That Number, “Eleven”
Today is Eleven Day. I love when the calendar does something quirky like this. It made me think for a second about what the number "11" has meant in my life. I was 11 years old when I tested positive for HIV. No other event has had such an impact on me. I spent...
#GetBetterEthan Support HIV/AIDS in NYC Marathon
The crappy news of the week is that Ethan Zohn's cancer has returned. Many of you may know Ethan from Survivor Africa, the reality show that he won a million dollars on and then used the money to start an HIV/AIDS awareness organization called Grassroot Soccer.I...
A Massage With An Unhappy Ending
Halloween has come and gone. I had a great one this year- saw my friends' new band, Brighter Fires, have their first show at a house party that included the obligatory visit by the police. So funny, I had a can of beer in my hand and set it down when the car rolled...
The End of AIDS Will Come
The current issue of Poz has a compelling cover- a red ribbon with a big black "X" through it. The cover story is written by Regan Hofmann, who astutely observes: "Having 27.3 million people with HIV globally (about 1 million of them in America) remain untreated...