Since we have no kids and my brother doesn't either, we are very lucky that C's brother and his wife produced two amazing young women, Samantha and Allison. The sisters are ten years apart, and yet somehow, really really great friends. We're really close to both of our nieces (Sam actually lived with us for …
Cohabitation
The first time I lived alone was my two years in grad school, in Baltimore. I had a cute little studio in a building with a lot of other Peab students. I loved it (only downside: we weren't allowed to practice there) and since I was going through a lot of growing pains, especially coming-out-of-the-closet …
A Gay Outing
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 …
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 …
