I usually try to go down and visit my dad and brother a couple of times a year, and often that’s what I do with the November Veteran’s Day holiday (since C passed and I no longer go dow…

So, last weekend was a four-day weekend for me, because I’d taken Fri/Mon off for my birthday trip to Provincetown. Which I cancelled due to weather. It was the right call, but *sigh* Friday …

Yay, it’s becoming fall! Long sleeves. Lounge pants. I was so sick of the muggy poaching weather. Unfortunately, I just cancelled my long-planned birthday weekend in Provincetown because the …

I did the smart thing this year and took September 11th off from work. Especially on the 25th anniversary, I thought it best to reserve the day for reflection. I usually quite deliberately don&#821…

Phew, quite a couple of weeks. Right after my return from Rhinebeck, we had work, the one-two punch of losing Dolly Parton and Tim Curry, and auditions for 1776. I love Dolly in the same general wa…

So a couple of weekends ago, I went up to ‘upstate New York’ for a long weekend visiting Patti and Peter. That’s in quotes, because they live in Rhinebeck, which is only two hours…

OK, let’s see. I finished the latest season of Drag Race All Stars. I skipped the finale, I already knew who won (I like her) and I don’t care about lipsync battles. I will say that put…

Just random stuff up to which I have been over the last few weeks. My buddy Renee had volunteered me to host a Jaws viewing party. I was all for that. I had seen it when it was first out, when I wa…

I worked from home yesterday, but that doesn’t have much to do with anything. There’s a lot going on in my job right now (unusual) and I’m finding that I’m getting wildly di…

So, it’s official. HR has been notified. My supervisor, his boss and our VP have been notified. My project lead and team have been notified. And my reporting team as well. I’m retiring …

The one-person show Every Brilliant Thing, which was brought to Broadway this season as a vehicle for Daniel Radcliffe (who was, by all reports, amazing) has continued on, replacing Radcliffe with …

As anyone knows who is privileged enough (*koffkoff*) to have me whine at them, I spent quite a lot of planning and effort gearing myself up for an early-in-the-year audition for a production of Sw…

So, this weekend was the Plan B version of the “get out of town” weekend to Connecticut that had gotten torpedoed. I decided to do an overnight in New Hope, PA – hadn’t been…

I do spend an awful lot of my life thinking, “oh, I should take a power walk every day” or “I should practice the piano every day” or “I should do some of the organiza…

I was 11 years old for the Bicentennial and, oddly enough, was out of the country for the actual day. We were taking a typically weird Peterson vacation. Mom was in South America for work, and Dad …

I know I explain this every year, but a couple of factoids: There is an annual Gilbert & Sullivan festival that takes place every August in northern England. I work (regularly, but not necessar…

*waves* Hi, everyone, I’m still here. I’ve just been hip-deep in rehearsals and performances ever since I got back from my mid-May trip. And there will be substantial bloggitude about t…

ALT: Young Frankenstein: Enormous Schwanzstück

For years, my (now former) upstairs neighbors Josh and Mariah and (Charles and) I have gotten together for pizza (or whatever) while we watch the big awards shows – Oscars and Tonys certainly…

Happy Pride Month! I have all sorts of thoughts about Pride, but this is not the post for that. I finally got to see the movie Pillion last night. I’d been leery of it. By all accounts, it wa…

Starting June by celebrating the end of the post-surgery eyedrops routine. Hurrah! I’m loving the new eyes, although I’m now resigned to having reading glasses in every possible spot in…

So, a couple of weekends ago, after a Friday night seeing Sweeney Todd and a Saturday so busy getting stuff wrapped up that I wasn’t able to go see my buddy Manya’s Mercedes in Carmen, …