Coming soon...

My sister Aleah recently told me I should write a book. I’ve thought about it many times, but there are so many things I want to write about, I think it would have to be a collection of short stories and essays, with no running theme, which wouldn’t be very popular.  But I guess writing it wouldn’t hurt, at some point in time I won’t’ be around to share my stories or wisdom, or mistakes and embarrassing moments with anyone.  So I’m beginning to think about how that would look and how to begin it, or finish it rather, as beginning new tasks are never a problem for me.

In the meanwhile, I will continue to write about the things on my mind, and publish them here if nothing else.

It’s probably not a surprise that I am a regular reader of POZ Magazine.  I love it. It is a great place to keep updated on HIV news and research issues, but it also gives me perspectives from around the world that I don’t get to see in my tiny corner of the world.  The term cultural anthropology comes to mind often when I think about HIV in today’s world.  I wonder if maybe when I go back to school that is where I ought to focus my energy, so that I can be the voice for funding and research that begins to treat, prevent and ideally cure populations that are often left behind in today’s formularies.  *sigh* but then I think of how far away I am form the end, (remember I don’t’ finish things as well as I start them) that I’m not sure I will ever actually go back to school.  I wonder where my Leo nature is when it comes to things like this.

Regan Hofmann is one of my favorite journalists/writers. She is the editor of POZ Magazine, and everything she does, often the feature story but also often times just her letter at the beginning of the issue gets my mind moving and thinking, and helps me to feel inspired.  She wrote the Feature article of this issue:  How Congress Can Cure AIDS. 

This will be coming tomorrow, but for tonight I think it would be good to put the link out there and have folks read it for themselves…