As part of my Christmas celebration, I've been 'rereading' some favorite Christmas-themed romance novels as audiobooks. I'd discovered the hilarious May Archer this year, whose "Love in O'Leary" series takes place in a quite-deliberately too-good-to-be-true Hallmarky small town where everyone gets in your business. In The Night, photographer Liam shows up in O'Leary with his …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Turkey-Lurkey Time
Traditional "E&C visit the Petersons for Thanksgiving": we take the week off, fly down on Sunday. C takes over the kitchen completely, delighting my parents. There's a day for outlet mall shopping. I help my dad with computer issues. We go home on Friday, unfortunately missing out on the leftovers. It's different now. We'd only …
Unusually Good
One thing you learn the hard way when you pursue something seriously - such as playing the French horn really really well - is that there are days when everything just works. There's very little effort, you sound great, it all just flies. And it's very easy to internalize those 'best days' as 'normal' - …
Its’ Beginning to Look a Lot like…
One of the main things that's been upsetting Mr. C about the ongoing saga of his leg is that he really lives for the holidays and he'd been realizing for months that if he's still as disabled as he has been, we will not be hosting Christmas or even decorating the house the way he …
Spooooky
As always, we're enjoying "Scary October", making sure to watch scary movies and TV shows. We really liked "Midnight Mass", delightfully creepy and very well-acted. It got a little monologuey at times, and I didn't buy the ending where none of the townspeople could find shelter. Nonetheless, bravo and I think we will pick up …
DC Tourist
Mild regret: even though Washington, DC was 'the city' where I grew up, and an easy 20 minute drive from my childhood home, I never actually lived in the city and never really got to know it. It's confusing enough in its layout that I always got lost when I drove there. (I thought it …
High School Reunion
Hey, it's National Coming Out Day! As I posted on FB and Twitter, coming out of the closet was a milestone I had to achieve in order to finally become an adult. Allowing myself to pursue intimate relationships opened up an emotional range that was... well, I've said this before, but there's some old SF …
Mom’s Ceremony
Followup to The Scattering Once the boat was anchored, we shared reminiscences and stories. My brother had written a piece, which he shared, but I will not, as it was very personal. (He might want to share it himself.) But there were also poems and photos and a song shared. My aunt read Do Not …
I Celebrate the Me Yet to Come
Oh, hey, this looks different, don't it? Yep. Yesterday was my birthday and I decided to push the Saturday chores to Sunday, take the day off and do webpage stuff. I'd wanted to combine my mostly unused website The Toast Point Page and my blog into one site, plus point to my old blog and …
Cape May, Part 3
Finally, our last full day in Cape May, we had a day that was closer to the ideal beach vacation day than the others. It was still pretty weird, but nice, too. Leisurely wake-up and clean-up. C decided we should go to breakfast at Uncle Bill's Pancake House, fine with me. We drove over there. …
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