Episode II: A New Blog
Music Album Review: ‘Cinema Serenade 2: The Golden Age – Itzhak Perlman, John Williams & The Boston Pops Orchestra’ (1999)
Cinema Serenade 2: The Golden Age – Itzhak Perlman, John Williams & The Boston Pops Orchestra Label: Sony Classical Year Released: 1999 Genre(s): Film Music, Light Classical, Violin Transcriptions Cinema Serenade 2: The Golden Age — A New and Expanded Review Following the unexpected and well‑deserved success of Cinema Serenade, conductor John Williams and violinist…
Excerpt from ‘Comings and Goings – The Art of Being Seen’: An Unexpected (and Fateful) Escape from a Bad Party
An Excerpt from Comings and Goings – The Art of Being Seen Boston, 1984. A party Jim Garraty never wanted to attend. A girl who didn’t look away. A night stitched together by mixtapes, quiet courage, and the ache of choosing to stay. Jim isn’t chasing romance—he’s just trying to outrun the noise. But when…
Songs from All My Yesterdays (A Thursday Musicale)
Thursday, May 21, 2026, Orlando, Florida Hi there, Dear Reader. It is midafternoon on a hot, humid, and potentially rainy late spring afternoon in Central Florida. As I write this, it’s just past three, and the temperature outside is 88°F (31°C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at a sticky 59% and the wind blowing…
Book Review: ‘Miss Harper Can Do It: A Novel’
Miss Harper Can Do It: A Novel By: Jane Berentson Publisher: Viking Year Published: 2009 Genre(s): Contemporary women’s fiction Miss Harper Can Do It — A Surprisingly Poignant Home‑Front Novel Every now and then, I like to wander outside my usual reading comfort zone. Most of the books on my shelves skew toward the traditionally…
A Musicale for a Torrid Tuesday in May 2026
Tuesday, May 19, 2026, Orlando, Florida Hi, there, Dear Reader, and welcome to another edition of Alex’s Writer’s Block Musicales! I don’t have any interesting topics to write about on this extremely hot late spring day in Central Florida, and I’m sure that I’ll bore you if I share another post about editing subheadings in…
On Steamy Days and Sluggish Muses
Monday, May 18, 2026 — Orlando, Florida It’s early afternoon in my corner of Central Florida, and it is, in a word, steamy. The temperature outside is 89°F (32°C) under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 47% and an easterly breeze at 11 MPH (18 km/h), the feels-like temperature is 94°F (35°C). We’ve already hit…
A Musicale for a Scorching Sunday in May 2026
Sunday, May 17, 2026, Orlando, Florida I am experiencing a case of “writer’s block” on this extremely hot spring afternoon. I still want to post something in A Certain Point of View, Too today, so here’s another YouTube musicale:
Heat, History, and the Trouble With America at 250
Saturday, May 16, 2026 — Orlando, Florida It is a torrid late‑spring day in Central Florida. As I write this, it’s just past one in the afternoon, and the heat outside is, in a word, oppressive. The temperature sits at 90°F (32°C) under partly sunny skies. With a southeast wind at 8 mph (13 km/h)…
On Writing and Storytelling: The Moving Image – ‘Sunny in the Village of Crickets’
I am, first and foremost, a writer. I tell stories mostly through literary works, such as novellas (Reunion: A Story), novels (Reunion: Coda), and novelettes (Comings and Goings – The Art of Being Seen). This is my main creative outlet, and even though I don’t strictly work in a vacuum with no support (I benefited…
On Writing and Storytelling: Stories, Sunshine, and the People Who Read Them
Thursday, May 14, 2026, Orlando, Florida Hi, there. It’s another scorchingly hot late‑spring afternoon in Central Florida. As I write this, the temperature sits at 87°F (30°C) under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 42% and a west‑northwest breeze of 11 MPH (17 km/h), the heat index nudges up to a sticky 92°F (33°C). The…
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