... hurricanes hardly ever happen. So, I just got back from my Thanksgiving road trip, very successful. As I said earlier, I'd been dealing with a miserable sinus thing for a couple of weeks. (Tentative diagnosis: leaf mold allergy) Post-nasal drip, irritated throat, coughing, Mucinex, cough syrup, the whole bit. I had a colonoscopy scheduled …
Petty petty petty petty
Those of you who know March of the Falsettos can sing along in your head. Lots to blog about, this may be scattershot and might be more than one post. I've been low-level sick for about a week. Last Tuesday (a holiday), Susan and I went outlet-mall shopping out on Long Island. Fun, but it …
When October Goes (again)
Busy busy with all good things. The week after the Planets concert, I didn't have QUO rehearsal, but I did have a rehearsal up in Connecticut for a church gig. My college roommate Vance's husband Craig is the Minister of Music at the First Congregational Church of Old Greenwich, one Metro North stop south of …
Exploring Uranus
Heh-heh-heh. Still twelve on the inside. Yeah, we had our first big Queer Urban Orchestra concert of the year. The season's theme is "A Place for Us" and the concert was titled Queer Cosmos. The big featured piece was Holst's The Planets, which I'd never played in its entirety. (I'd conducted and played "Jupiter" - …
Mikado
So, that was a fun weekend! A little background. My British G&S colleague Rachel founded and runs a scrappy little theater company in the UK called Forbear!. They do really interesting small-scale versions of the G&S operas and tour them all over the UK. And then my American G&S colleague Will runs a scrappy little …
Birthday Week
Celebratory shenanigans, homeowner tomfoolery and a fair amount of French horn. Yeah, I'm 61 now. My main reaction was "oh, I guess I really am in my 60's". I'm a firm believer in the 'the older you are, the more days your birthday takes up". Birthday was Thursday, but I started on Tuesday. Since my …
Mid September
Title's not more descriptive because I've been just chugging through 'normal life', and that's wonderful. So nice not to have a huge project hanging over my head. Work (which is fine), life maintenance (which is fine), orchestral rehearsals (which are fun!), lining up fall holiday plans. I'm tackling little projects which have been sitting on …
Happy Anniversary
We got married on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend, 2014. This year, the anniversary was also on the Sunday of Labor Day weekend. Our eleventh, and fourth without him. That's right, our marriage didn't even make it to our eighth anniversary, and I'm still furious about that. Last year, since it was the 10th, …
Summer Wrap-Up
Yeah, so I've been home for two weeks. That first week was about the Bear Necessities, such as buying groceries and getting a haircut and a mani-pedi, and combing through a thousand emails and paying bills and so on. I knew this past week would be busier - I had houseguests coming in on Wednesday. …
Oh, by the way…
If you're not seeing the links I'm posting on FB or Bluesky, I am in fact doing day-by-day posts of my UK trip, after the fact. But they're back-dated, so they won't display at the top here. Just go to the beginning of August, you'll see them.
