I'm tired of blogging about World Aids Day. Every year, I put it on my "to be blogged" calendar and every year I do it. And every year I think to myself, "Next year, I'll have some good news about AIDS/HIV to blog about for World AIDS Day." And every year, I have no good news.

Saturday is World Aids Day so I thought I'd take this opportunity to tell you a personal story to kick off to my more traditional method of linking off to women blogging... In September of this year, four days after my son's 21st birthday, the phone rang at about 8:30 at night. I glanced at the caller ID. It was Chris. I answered with a "Yo Dude, what's up!", like I often do. (It takes the edge off of those requests for money and stuff.) There was silence and then he said...