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August 29th marked 102 days... and while I am very late providing an update, I wasn't quite ready... On day 45 I had updated you all on my life since June 1, the day I arrived to New Jersey... but...

I attended the 2023 USCHA conference in Washington DC last week. All I can is wow...what an experience. Backstory: I have been out of the HIV loop for quite a few years. (My other life took over.) However, I could...

It is September 25th, 2023. This day marks my 11th year of knowing that I'm living with HIV. Eleven years is a long time. Time is one of those things that seems to be dragging and suddenly you look up...

Have you ever felt invisible? As a child I felt invisible. In my home there were just three of us: my mother, my brother, and me. My parents divorced when I was three years old. My brother had health problems...

This was my first time attending the USCHA conference in DC. This year's theme was "A Love Letter to Black Women". When I found out about this conference earlier this year, I said, I don't know how I'm getting there...

I would like to tell you about a very special conference to me; it's called Positive Living and it's hosted by an organization called Oasis Florida. I've been coming to this conference since 2015. I remember being invited by my...

MY GIRLS! I can't explain the connection and the happiness I feel when I'm around them. When I share space with them, I feel heard and held and so effortlessly it comes naturally for me to do the same for...

September 27, 2023 12:00pm ET | 9:00am PT via Association of Nurses in AIDS Care (ANAC) This webinar, presented by the ANAC DEI committee, will be a panel discussion that provides strategies for having healthy conversations about sex.

This is the second time I've been able to attend USCHA and oddly enough, both trips followed a significant event in my life... I often refer to USCHA as the Grammys of HIV Conferences. With 4,000 people in attendance it...

Last year at USCHA I stood in a room and said, We are not long-term survivors, but we are LIFETIME SURVIVORS. Never would I have thought that by me saying that name, that term, a year later I would be...