Tag Archives: Profiles in Grace
TBT/GTS##4&5: Jimmy and Joey Parker: “Mastering Life”
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
Posted in AIDS, Angels, Death, health, Love
Tagged AIDS, Dallas, family, Friendship, gone too soon, NTSU, NTU, Profiles in Grace
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A Word, if You Will, about My “Gone too Soon” Profiles
[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
Posted in AIDS, Angels, belief, Death, faith, health, Love, poetry, Uncategorized
Tagged ACT UP, AIDS, Ancestry.com, Civilian Warfare, David Haney, Dean Savard, family trees, Fire Island, Fire Island Pines, gone too soon, Mark Simpson, Michael Bishop, Profiles in Grace, Ruffin Cooper, Tim Dlugos
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