by Mark S. King | Dec 17, 2012 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease
There is so much distance in my mother’s eyes that I fear she may never come close to me again. Circling her stare are wrinkles of pain, betrayal even, and in her hand she holds the watch. It was December of my senior year of high school, and things had calmed... 
by Mark S. King | Jun 14, 2012 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, My Fabulous Disease
“Now, people have their bat kites and their regular shaped kites,” Dad said to me when I was ten years old, “but the box kite, Mark, now there is the most aerodynamically sound of them all.” He demonstrated by making a box kite out of balsa wood and brown paper.... by Mark S. King | Dec 13, 2011 | Anita Mann and Acting Gigs, Family and Friends, Gay Life, Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease
My mother’s home here in Shreveport, Louisiana, was fraught with excitement last week. Christmas decorations littered the living room, the almond scent of cookies filled the air, and last minute phone calls and arrangements made it all feel like a major... by Mark S. King | Dec 6, 2011 | Living with HIV/AIDS, My Fabulous Disease, Prevention and Policy
Remember when we were little, and if we wanted something we simply asked for it? It felt easy. It seemed natural. And if there was really something special we had to have, there was a golden opportunity every year to ask the person who made all things possible. Santa... by Mark S. King | Nov 29, 2011 | Family and Friends, Gay Life, Meth and Recovery, My Fabulous Disease
Florida highways have lovely rest stops. You would expect that from the Turnpike, where toll booths charge a premium every so often, but the manicured picnic areas continue even as you drive further north and onto I-75. I’m on a cement bench in a concession...
