A while ago, my friend Marisa let me know that a New Jersey theater group she was involved with was soliciting coming-out stories for a theater piece they were building for Pride. I submitted one, then immediately forgot about it. When the director contacted me a few months ago to get me to sign a …
Author: Eric Peterson
Conductor, hornist, singer, business analyst, New Yorker. Happily gay-married. Knit and ice-skate for fun.
Put a Pin in That
Since I haven't been practicing piano, or doing much of anything besides working and reading, I should probably be writing more. Things that have floated through my empty head to blog about: Is "none" singular or plural?Pride month stuffMedia consumptionFear of aging/losing capabilityHow I fell in love with wind instrumentsNothing matters and it's all pointless …
Crunch
So… A week ago, I fell off my bike and fractured my collarbone.I had started writing a huge blog post about it, and in excruciating detail, got as far as my first urgent care visit, and then went, “this is boring“ and stopped. So here’s the highlights version. Memorial day Monday was the first nice …
That Dinkum Thinkum
So, I like audiobooks just fine, but I use them mostly to reread books I liked the first time around (I have a bad habit of skimming when I read - audiobooks force me to not skim). One of my favorite M/M authors turned me on to Chirp. Their regular prices are about par with …
Unreliable Narrator
Someday, maybe, I'll have actual themes and essays to write. This is not that day. Things have been fine here, mostly. C has been having health problems, but we finally, after vaccination and the two-week wait, got him to a doctor. Waiting for test results now, but he's basically fine, except for this leg and …
Fie then, why sit we musing?
Hey, it's May! Still chilly, but sunny out today for now. It's Mother's Day, the second without our Mom. She never cared much about it - happy to receive the cards and flowers and so on, but if we'd forgotten or gotten them there a day late, there would have been no blowback or guilt …
Oh, yeah, this always happens
Ah yes, the return of the anxiety of "why am I tired all the time? Why can't I concentrate? Why can't I get anything done". Followed eventually by the dull realization that this might be connected to "why am I sneezing all the time? Why are my eyes burning? Why are my glasses covered with …
Waiting for my microchip to connect
C and I got our 2nd Pfizer shots yesterday. Same drill: Uber to the Bronx, a not-bad wait outside in line at Lincoln Hospital (which then became a wait inside). They sort of had two lines, one for 1st and one for 2nd doses. Once inside and through the paperwork, they put us in various …
Allegro con brio
Continuing to be personally and, um, emotionally? productive. Work's going well, I'm in the process of wrapping up a first-quarter project. We're big on quarters at PLI. I didn't finish the training I'd slated to do for first quarter, but I don't think my boss cares and I could possibly wrap that up this weekend. …
Practically Productive
One of my favorite books, Judith Guest's "Ordinary People", introduced me to a phrase I've tried to take to heart, that there's 'no golden gradebook in the sky'. It's easy to beat yourself for failing to hit your own goals, even though they don't make a lot of difference and no one else cares. Anyway, …
