Category: Blogging
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Halfway There, and the Horses Are Getting Restless
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, Amazon Italy, Amazon Japan, Amazon Mexico, Amazon Poland, Amazon Reviews, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon Sweden, Amazon UK, And the Horse You Rode In On, Autumn 2026, Autumn in Florida, Books, Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Florida Weather, Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Central Florida, Life in Florida, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, The Jim Garraty Chronicles, The Jim Garraty Chronicles (Series), The Jim Garraty Chronicles: A Life Told in Four Movements, The Summer of Two MoviesTuesday, November 3, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, everyone, and welcome to another exciting episode of A Writer’s Life. Today has been a better day than yesterday, at least weatherwise. It rained a little while I was sleeping last night, but even though it was cloudy and mostly gray when I got up around eight…
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Rainy Monday, New Readers, and Back to The Book
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Brazil, Amazon Canada, Amazon Germany, Amazon Italy, Amazon Japan, Amazon Mexico, Amazon Poland, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon Sweden, Amazon UK, And the Horse You Rode In On, Autumn 2026, Autumn in Florida, Books, Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Florida Weather, Kindle, Life in Central Florida, Life in Florida, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, The Jim Garraty Chronicles (Series), The Jim Garraty Chronicles: A Life Told in Four Movements, Writing and Editing, Writing as a CraftMonday, November 2, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, all. It’s the first Monday in November 2026. Outside, it is a cool, damp, cloud-shrouded day that’s meant for staying indoors (except, perhaps, to check the mailbox), eating a hot lunch, and, in my case, getting ready to work on The Book. Right now, the temperature is…
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Changing Cards, Changing Chapters
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in Autumn 2026, Autumn in Florida, Blogging, Family History, Life in Central Florida, Life in Florida, Life in Madison (NH), Life in Miami (1972-2016), Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 – October 2024), Life in South Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Life in the United States, Miami-Dade Community College, Personal History, Personal Thoughts, Personal Thoughts, Semester in Spain Program, Semester in Spain Program – CCISChanging Cards, Changing Chapters Yesterday, I did something that should have been utterly mundane. I took my New Hampshire state ID out of my wallet and replaced it with my new Florida one. That’s it. One little plastic card came out; another little plastic card went in. And yet, for a moment, it felt weird.…
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Finally?
On the second anniversary of my triumphant return to the Sunshine State, I might finally get my Florida state ID issued (or, more accurately, reissued… again). Last year I was sent packing for missing one tiny-but-crucial piece of paperwork, but this time my landlady has the day off, the stars have aligned, and we’re heading…
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An Autumn Quote (Ray Bradbury)
“That country where it is always turning late in the year. That country where the hills are fog and the rivers are mist; where noons go quickly, dusks and twilights linger, and midnights stay. That country composed in the main of cellars, sub-cellars, coal-bins, closets, attics, and pantries faced away from the sun. That country…
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Autumn, Amazon, and Four Hours of Sleep
Monday, October 19, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, everyone! It’s a muggy, gray-shrouded autumn day here in Central Florida as a new workweek gets underway. We had a little rain yesterday afternoon and again early this morning, but as I write this, it’s 76°F (25°C) under mostly cloudy skies. The humidity is sitting at 74%,…
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It’s Beginning to Feel a Lot Like Autumn…by Florida Standards, Anyway
Sunday, October 18, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, everyone. It’s the first truly cool day of autumn in Central Florida. Right now, it’s 76°F (24°C) under partly sunny skies on this Sunday afternoon. It was chilly this morning when I got up, but it’s still relatively early in the season, so I didn’t feel like…
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Musings on My Mother’s 98th Birthday
Saturday, October 17, 2026 – Orlando, Florida “I can pinpoint that as the single happiest moment of my life, because I realized then that Mom would always have my back. It made me feel giant. I raced back down the concrete ramp, faster than I ever had before, so fast I should have fallen, but…
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More October Reveries
Friday, October 16, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Tomorrow would have been my mom’s 98th birthday. My feelings about that are, well, complicated. She died 11 years ago in the South Florida townhouse we had called home for more than 37 years, after a long and painful struggle with dementia, depression, kidney problems, and the other…
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No ‘Fair Weather’ Friend is He: Constant Reader Profile – Juan Carlos Hernandez
Thursday, October 15, 2026 – Orlando, Florida This is one of my best friends from South Miami Senior High, actor-director Juan Carlos Hernandez. We met in Drama class during the 1982-83 school year; he was a junior who liked performing, and I was a senior who needed an elective because I’d taken Economics and Government…
