Category Archives: AIDS

TBT/GTS##4&5: Jimmy and Joey Parker: “Mastering Life”

Posted on July 17, 2026 by ganid11

How I Knew Them James Boyd (Jimmy) Parker “Tommy,” Leath Nunn said to me one afternoon as he was heading out for Madame Danilova’s ballet class, “I asked my friend Jimmy to come tonight. I hope that’s okay.” “Of course … Continue reading →

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Giving Life to Art: A Profound Event

Posted on August 4, 2019 by ganid11

We didn’t know it at the time, but the summer of 1996 proved to be a turning-point of enormous proportions for the world – and especially our little corner of it – because that was the season when we first … Continue reading →

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A Burning of Stories, Part I

Posted on August 29, 2017 by ganid11

Good afternoon, everyone. My apologies for being so long away from this blog, but I have the best excuse ever. Our house burned down. Yes, that house. Cedar House. The one from which so much of this blog has sprung. … Continue reading →

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A Word, if You Will, about My “Gone too Soon” Profiles

Posted on March 9, 2017 by ganid11

[Dumbledore says, in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, “Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic.” Which is why, perhaps, I have found this such a difficult piece to write. No magician … Continue reading →

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