Category: Amazon Music
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, December 31, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second (New Year’s Eve Edition)
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Music, Christmas 2023, Creative Writing, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), John Williams (Composer), Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward), Movies, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Weather in New Hampshire, Winter 2023-2024Late Morning, Sunday, December 31, 2023, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. I hope that you are doing well today, which is (depending on where you are right now) either the last day of 2023 or the first day of 2024. For me, it’s late morning on the last Sunday (and day) of 2023. It’s a…
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A Quick Life Update from Madison, New Hampshire: A Trip to Market Basket on 2023’s Last Friday
Afternoon, Friday, December 29, 2023, Madison, New Hampshire It’s now afternoon – somewhere between early and mid-afternoon – here in my corner of New England on the last Friday of 2023. The weather outside, while not frightful, is…naturally, gray and wintry without being oppressively cold or rainy. As I write this at 2:38 PM EST,…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, December 28, 2023, or: Notes on a Rainy Day in New England
Late Morning, Thursday, December 28, 2023, Madison, New Hampshire “Let it rain on some days, Let yourself shiver on some cold nights, So when it’s Spring you’ll know why it was all worth going through.” ― Sanhita Baruah Hi, there, folks. Well, here we are, three days after Christmas, three days before New Year’s Eve,…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, December 20, 2023, or: A Quick Life Update from Hoth…er, Madison, New Hampshire
Late Morning, Wednesday, December 20, 2023, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone, and welcome to the 1,366th post on A Certain Point of View, Too. It’s just past 10 AM Eastern Standard Time – thank the Force that I’m still in the same time zone, even though I left my home state eight days ago –…
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On Music & Melodies: A Quick Music-Only Post to Start the Workweek
Hi, everyone! I’m a bit behind my usual schedule for posting on A Certain Point of View, Too, and I must get ready for my novel-writing journey for this first day of the official workweek, so today all you’ll get is another collection of music videos from YouTube, including another cover of All the Things…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Music that Inspires Me While I’m Working on ‘Reunion: Coda’
Late Morning, Wednesday, September 20, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi all. As you know, I love listening to music when I write. It doesn’t matter what I’m writing; it could be a blog post such as the one you’re reading now, or a first draft of a screenplay, or a prose story, but unless I have…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, September 17, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
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in A Bridge Too Far (1977 film), Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Music, Autumn in Florida, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, MicroProse Software, Movies, Regiments (2022), Regiments: Iron Curtain, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Star Trek, Star Trek: Picard – Season TwoLate Morning/Midday, Sunday, September 17, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. Here in my corner of the Tampa Bay area it is – as I begin this post – late Sunday morning. Even though it’s not quite noon, the temperature outside is still a scorching 86°F/30°C under sunny conditions. With the wind blowing from the southwest…
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Weekend Musical Interlude: Saturday, September 2, 2023
Early Afternoon, Saturday, September 2, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. Even though I’ve gotten some rest over the past few days, I’m still a bit tired today and don’t feel like writing too much at the moment. It’s the weekend, anyway, so I am going to take some time to rest, read for a while,…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, August 19, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
Late Morning/Midday, Saturday, August 19, 2023, Lithia, Florida “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Hi, there, Dear Reader. Well, here it is late morning on another steamy late summer day in the Tampa…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, August 13, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second – Hot as Hell Edition
Midday/Early Afternoon, Sunday, August 13, 2023, Lithia, Florida “An’ the dawn comes up like thunder outer China ‘crost the Bay!” – Rudyard Kipling, The Road to Mandalay The Tampa Bay area is nowhere near Mandalay, Burma. Nor is it across the Bay from China, for that matter. But summers here – as well as in…
