We lost Mom two years ago today. It still feels odd, even though most of my contemporaries have lost one or both of their parents, some many years ago. Both of my familys are long-lived, and it didn't seem that unusual that we were lucky enough to have both of them. But Mom faded out …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Brrr
Looks like we're really having winter. 19 degrees farenheit right now, and possibly sinking. So... the New Year. We had a quiet NYE at home. We spent the two weeks after Xmas continuing with the Christmas movies. (I gave up and started keeping a spreadsheet. This is also handy because I got the new Deck …
2021 Wrapup
OK, so in a lot of ways, 2021 was as sucktastic as 2020. We are still not at equilibrium with the COVID, and our politics are still a hot mess - although, certainly, Biden's inauguration put paid to the daily Dose of Dread we had been getting for four years. I have high hopes that …
That Liminal Space
I'm on mini-vacation again, taking a day and a half more than the 3-day weekend. I did manage to get work mostly wrapped up before yesterday afternoon, when I dropped off. But a big lunch and a big catch-up phone call with a dear friend took up the afternoon. But I've been going going going …
Shutdown… you’d better take care…
This new wave of Omicron has me more nervous about catching COVID than before, not sure why. Possibly because I keep hearing about how it's far more transmissible. Like I've been fine with my cloth masks, even if they're gappy around the edges, because I'm still trying to stay away from people, but apparently the …
What the Falala
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 …
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 …
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