Perhaps I am extremely tired. No, I am extremely tired. There is no perhaps to it. I am working on a book chapter that is due in two weeks and I barely have an outline together. I am a very fast writer, however. But there just may not […]
They were exhausted from all their pacing during the past 24 hours. They had smoked up a storm and even prayed to the tiki gods, sort of speak. They sat cross-legged and rocked their bodies. Not in unison, however. They were too keyed up in their own minds. […]
A guilty conscience doesn’t go away overnight No matter how much you whisper to your pillow No matter how much you tear at the feathers No matter how much you clench your fists A guilty conscience will still gnaw at you Even in a happy, random moment Even […]
Of course you are Upset Frustrated Angry Tired Annoyed Incredulous Frightened Weary Worried Unsure Beaten-down Enraged Aggrieved Disappointed Anxious Conflicted Alarmed Antagonized In need of a real answer Waiting for the other shoe to drop Sickened by it all But what are you going to do about it?
I had to get away. I needed a small trip for the weekend. Especially because I did not get a chance to travel anywhere this summer. And that kills me. I have gotten used to going away somewhere. I get a weird sense of claustrophobia when I […]
This week I would not help myself. I had two pet peeves I focused on as I suppose I let some things bother me. I am a fairly easy going person until I am not. I am Type A until you drive me to the point of […]
Baggage and more Don’t try to lay that on me Don’t saddle me with your heaviness You are carrying rocks in your bag What makes you think I want to carry that on my back? A dozen and one lies in a pocket And a Roman Coliseum Where […]
Face down in the gutter No hand but my own You wanted to save me Today, not yesterday But yesterday mattered Today I can pull myself up You could have saved me yesterday But all you wanted was a boost The body aches were real The tears rightfully […]
The funny thing about my face is that it is both very expressive and also very much a poker one. Yes, one can have both of these facial atributes. I can even use my expressiveness to mask and thus mislead. But that is a whole other story. […]
This past week, the International AIDS Conference held it’s biannual worldwide event. It’s a time for cutting edge scientific and advocacy presentations and discussions. One of the speakers-a frequent speaker-was former US President Bill Clinton. He noted that those of us in the HIV field are in […]