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Time And Colour Blindness

Last year, in my blog post Speak your mind even if your voice shakes, I wrote about an incident that happened at Pride where the emcee made a comment in reference to a Black performer about “not seeing colour”. I received a couple negative comments in response to...

Mid-Life

Well, today is my birthday. How do I feel? Well, the chorus of this song written by Merle Travis, sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford and released by Capitol Records on this date in 1956, says it...

What’s Up Doc?

Time for catching up… My shoulder surgery went well. I wish they had sent me for this arthroscopic surgery a year ago. I’m going to physiotherapy three times a week and doing very well. Thank you all for your well wishes, notes and flowers. The more concerning problem...

What Was The Big Deal?

Sure, our numbers may be growing but out of a population of 33 million there are only a little more that 7,000 married same-sex couples in Canada. So what’s the big deal? Did the sky fall or something? According to Statistics Canada’s latest census results, gays and...

Post-Op

Gee, did somebody get the number of the bus that hit me? I feel pretty lousy today so I plan to stay in bed, take pain meds and veg out with the TV. Tomorrow I start physiotherapy and I’m so glad that I didn’t arrange it for today and had the presence of mind to give...

Surgery Today

Well today I’m having surgery on my shoulder. I’ve had a “frozen shoulder” for just over a year now and they found a couple of small cysts on my humerus so the doc’s gonna go in with a scope and clean things out. I’ve got the week off work but will be spending my...