My dad is 87 years old, but despite some very specific medical issues popping up here and there, is in terrific shape. He regularly takes 3-mile walks with my brother, eats right, and is cognitively right there. He (we) lost my mom two years ago, and then COVID hit, of course, but he is doing …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Fall into Fall
So, back to real life - but with this lovely weather! One weird thing though is that there's a brief window at the beginning of fall (before the heat turns on mid-October) and mid-spring (when the heat turns off again) where it's the coldest in the apartment it ever gets. So it's now, not February, …
So long and thanks for all the fish
So the idea that had ended up blossoming into this whole trip was, 'maybe I should go to Provincetown for my birthday'. And here it was, Sunday, my birthday. I wasn't particularly excited about it being my birthday, not a a milestone this time, and no honeyman to take me out to dinner or make …
Guilty feet have got no rhythm
Saturday: no specific plans, got up, did my coffee and reading and internets, got cleaned up. First breakfast at the Brass Key - self-serve buffet, including little individual spinach souffles, very nice. Lots of groups of boys chatting, although I sat alone. Then to the common room of my building to blog and do research …
Wellfleet, Truro, Ptown (!)
Friday: this was the day in the original plans that was going to be cah-razy, because I was going to try to do the top half of the rail trail. Well, most of my biking plans have been not-happening, although I will try to get one in here in Ptown. So it was kind of …
Gorey Details
Thursday: slept reasonably late, got up, had tea, blogged, got showered, went to breakfast. One of the other patrons was doing the 'this bacon is completely inedible because it's not the exact crispness that I like it' thing. I was accidentally catching her husband's eye from time to time, wanted to say, "is this just …
Driving around Cape Cod
Wednesday: Woke up quite early. Breakfast wasn't served until 8:00, but they had promised "coffee always" and they had a Keurig set up. I went down there around 7:00 and ... well, the Keurig was there, but no takeout cups or creams. Damn. So I liberated some teabags and went back upstairs. The kitchenette does …
Cape Cod, Canal Path
Tuesday: a leisurely morning to get up, blog, get cleaned up, go out and get breakfast, come back and pack. The ferry from Oak Bluffs to Woods Hole was at 10:45, so I left about 10:00. No problem waiting around - the weather has been so lovely I've been spending a ton of time outside, …
Nantucket
I have a lot of constant low-level anxiety and that's not good. Particularly lately, I find myself having to say to myself, out loud, several times a day, "You're not doing anything wrong." Yes, I need therapy, it's on the list, OK. Anyway, one of the promises I made myself was I was not going …
Vineyard Haven, Edgartown
A friend of mine had commented on FB that I should really get an apple fritter from a particular donut shop - she didn't know this, but said shop is mere feet from my hotel, so after morning coffee in the room, I went out and got one. Ate most of it sitting on a …
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