This is a post that would probably benefit from an outline and several drafts, which it's not gonna get. Oh well. I've come to realize over the last few years that I'm repressed enough that it's easier for me to access the deep emotions through art. I can't just feel something (deeply), I have to watch a …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Attack of the Squirrels
Last week was pretty mild. It was the anniversary of my mother's passing (four years now), observed merely with reflection. I finished a Christmas stocking I'd been working on since October. (I also got the Xmas stuff down out of the way of the cleaning lady on Wednesday, then got it down to the basement later, so that's …
Ham and Jam and Spamalot
This weekend, which has totally been given over to household reorganization, has been heavenly. I'm still deXmassing - the tree is down now, but I have to get all those ornaments back in their little boxes. That's OK, as I said to Susan, I have until November, when it all comes back out again. I've also continued with …
29 years
So, two weeks into the New Year. I've been doing pretty well, mostly quiet. I decided to cut way down on my drinking - no automatic glass of wine every night now, and I'm finishing my evenings with herbal tea instead of bourbon. Actually, I'm pretty much having just one cocktail for particular meals on the weekends, and …
2023 Wrapup
So... yeah. Not really gonna cover world events or anything like that. 2023 was the First Year Without Charles, of course, first one of those since I was 30. Life is quite different from 1994 - you can definitely do a Major Epoch of my life that would just be Before Charles, Charles, and After Charles. And I'm …
Oh, yeah, December
I really have been busy busy, also somewhat laid low by allergies the last two weeks (TMI. You're welcome), but I do need to catch up here, and then write an end-of-year wrapup which I can point to in my New Year's cards, because of course I never got around to sending out Xmas cards. …
Work the List
Let's see, where was I? Thanksgiving Christmas Prep Mikado audition Yucky thumb and now also Holiday Party LOONY concert Various Christmas movies and I doubt if I'll get all this caught up in this post. So... Thanksgiving. Our tradition for many years had been to go visit my parents and Charles would cook Thanksgiving dinner …
Oh, yeah, November
It's good, maybe, that I've been too busy living life to write about it? But I haven't blogged in almost a month? Wow. OK, let's bullet, and then expand, and this might go over several entries. Visiting Durham Attending shows Thanksgiving Christmas prep Mikado audition and a yucky thumb! Trip to Durham to visit Dad …
Anything Goes, First Tuesdays
Working my way through an unhurried, but planned morning, as I prepare for my now-traditional family visit over this holiday weekend. I leave for the airport at 10:00 - before then, I have to finish packing and close up the apartment, not a big deal, but important. Last week wasn't that busy, except we had …
Charles’s Birthday, NYGASP Patience
A double-header today. Basic catchup first. I'd worked from home the first week out of the hospital, but last week I went into the office on Monday and Wednesday, which was Just Fine. Actually, I started Wednesday with a doctor's appointment, with my GP. I had seen him just a few weeks ago, and this …
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