About 10 years ago I sat in a dorm room playing the words the man said to me a few hours earlier, "Your HIV test came back positive". What did that even mean? All I could think at the time...
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I wonder. Then I just imagine. Refreshing. Shouting out what takes space in the mind or heart. I am much more special than you could imagine. My journeys, adventures, memories are mine. I am on my way to have a...
There was a time when I didn't want to accept the things that God told me were in my future. I didn't want to do social services. I didn't want to do case management. I didn't want to help anyone...
Just thinking about how my mom didn’t get to accomplish things in life. Dying from AIDS and leaving me to survive with the virus. I live because she made a decision not to live. I love because she made the...
"Definitions belong to the definers, not the defined." –Toni Morrison. When I ran across this quote I felt it was appropriate to tie into what I experienced during this year's AIDSWATCH, because it defined my six years of HIV living...
I am in the south; for now. With that move comes changes of all kinds and one of those for me is finding medical help and of course a new "infectious disease" doctor (which I hate that they call our...
AIDSWatch 2019 was my first AIDSWatch and let me start by saying I felt so honored to be presented the opportunity and able to share space with some very respectable and important people. After looking over the two-day agenda I...
Today April 18 marks my 31 year battle with #hiv! I never thought I would make it this far! Thank you to all that have helped me and taught me in this journey to be a better human being. I...
It was pretty cold in Washington, but I knew I would see my brothers and sisters in the fight again and as usual I felt I was with my family! Lawanda, my dear roommate and fellow blogger for The Well...
So I was talking to an ex friend an acquaintance about the dating pool, age ( ugh), deal breakers and dating overall. I was expressing my annoyance and agitation at how, well, agitating dating is. Nobody has the time and...
