Category: Blogging
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Memory Lane: Futbol & Friendship in Sevilla, 1988
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s Friday, November 20, 2020, and here in New Hometown, Florida it is early afternoon on a (relatively) fall-like day in the sub-tropics. Currently, the temperature is 78˚F (25˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the east-northeast at 13 MPH (21 KM/H) and humidity at 66%, the heat…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, November 19, 2020, or: The Ghosts of Thanksgivings Past…and Present
Hello, there, Dear Reader. It’s late afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Currently, the temperature here is 73˚F (23˚C) under partly skies. With the wind blowing at 12 MPH (19 KM/H) from the east-northeast and humidity at 65%, the feels-like temperature is 73˚F (23˚C). The forecast for tonight calls for…
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Memory Lane: Off to Spain in ’88
In the fall of 1988, I participated in the College Consortium for International Studies (CCIS) Semester in Spain Program, in which I joined a group of 42 students from various colleges and universities from across the U.S. in a 12-week-long “accelerated semester” in Sevilla (Seville), Spain. From September 21 to mid-December of 1988, the members…
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If I Could Travel Back in Time…..
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s late afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida on Monday, November 16, 2020. Presently, the temperature is 80˚F (26˚C) under mostly sunny skies; with humidity at 71% and the wind blowing from the north-northeast at 7 MPH (11 KM/H), the heat index is 80˚F (26˚C). The forecast for tonight calls for…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, November 14, 2020, or: The Misadventures of a Sleep-Deprived Floridian
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s mid- to late afternoon here (almost 4 PM Eastern) as I write this in my claustrophobic corner of Florida. Presently, the temperature is 83˚F (28˚C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at 68% and the wind blowing from the east at 9 MPH (14 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 88˚F…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, November 12, 2020, or: Eta’s Gone, But I’m a Zombie…or Feel Like One, Anyway
Hi, there, Dear Reader. Well, it’s early afternoon – just a bit past 2 PM Eastern – on Thursday, November 12, 2020. Currently, the temperature is 79˚F (26˚C) under mostly cloudy skies. With humidity at 88% and the wind blowing from the west-southwest at 15 MPH (24 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 79˚F (26˚C). The…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, November 11, 2020, or: A Tale of Wind, Rain, and Ennui
Hello, Dear Reader. It is early afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida, on Wednesday, November 11, 2020. It is a dark, blustery day here; the current temperature is 78˚F (25˚C) under rainy conditions. With humidity at 96% and the wind blowing from the east-southeast at 14 MPH (22 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 78˚F (25˚C).…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, November 10, 2020, or: Of Distant Storms…and All Quiet on the NaNoWriMo Front
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s noon here in New Hometown, Florida on Tuesday, November 10, 2020. Currently, the temperature outside is 83˚F (28˚C) under mostly sunny skies. With humidity at 82% and the wind blowing from the east southeast at 14 MPH (22 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 92˚F (33˚C). Today’s forecast calls for partly…
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Election 2020: Why I Voted for Joe Biden
In the first week of October, knowing that Postmaster Louis DeJoy, a wealthy Republican and Trump supporter, was doing everything he could – including cutting U.S. Post Office employees’ work hours, removing mailboxes for “replacement,” and dismantling sorting machines and other equipment – to hinder voting by mail efforts made necessary by the global COVID-19…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, November 7, 2020, or: Blue Skies vs NaNoWriMo 2020….
It’s night here in New Hometown, Florida on this Saturday, November 7, 2020. It is nice and cool outside; the current temperature is 76˚F (24˚C) under partly cloudy skies. With the wind blowing from the east-northeast (with emphasis on the east) at 18 MPH (28 KM/H) and humidity at 78%, the feels-like temperature is 76˚F…
A Certain Point of View, Too 