Category: Blogging
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, October 30, 2023, or: Starting the Week on an Anxious Note
Late Morning, Monday, October 30, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. I hope all of you who read A Certain Point of View, Too had a nice weekend, and that your Monday – whether it’s a back-to-work, back-to-school, or just a first-day-of-the-new-week day for you – has been good to you so far. Here, it’s a…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, October 29, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second (The Anxious Blogger Edition)
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Computer and Video Games, Creative Writing, Depression, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, MicroProse Software, Personal Thoughts, Regiments (2022), Regiments: Iron Curtain, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: CodaMidday/Early Afternoon, Sunday, October 29, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. How’s your Sunday going? I sincerely hope you’re having (or, depending on where you live, have had) an enjoyable last Sunday of October 2023. As for me, I’m okay, I suppose. I’m still feeling tired from the sleepless night of October 27-28 – insomnia sucks…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, October 28, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First (Insomniac’s Edition)
Afternoon, Saturday, October 28, 2023, Lithia, Florida “It must be October, the trees are falling away and showing their true colors.” ― Charmaine J Forde Hi, folks. It’s almost mid-afternoon here in the Tampa Bay area on this, the last Saturday of October 2023. It’s sunny and warm (85°F/29°C) outside; I just stepped back inside…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, October 26, 2023, or: Memories of Octobers Past…and Finding My ‘Epistolary’ Voice in Chapter 12
Late Morning, Thursday, October 26, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. Well, here we are on a somewhat sunny and cool (78°F/26°C) – for the subtropical zone, at least – October morning in the Tampa Bay area. It looks like it’s going to be a nice day; the forecast calls for mostly sunny skies and…
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Tempus Fugit: I Wish You’d Known My Mom (A Tribute)
Late Morning/Midday, Saturday, October 21, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. If you’re a regular visitor to this space, you might recall that my late mother would have been 95 years old on Tuesday, October 17. As it is, she’s been gone for over eight years; she died less than three months before her 87th…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, October 19, 2023, or: A Quick Look at My Current TBW List
Late Morning, Thursday, October 19, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. It’s a cool autumn day here in Florida. Currently, the temperature outside is 75°F/24°C under sunny skies. If the forecast for today holds true, it should be an enjoyable day – skies are expected to be mostly sunny, and the high will be 83°F/28°C. There’s…
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Tempus Fugit: Yesterday Was My Mom’s 95th Birthday….
Yesterday was my mother’s 95th birthday. She, of course, is no longer here. She died in the early morning of Sunday, July 19, 2015, after a five-year struggle with dementia and the effects of a long and eventually failed recovery from an operation to repair her spine. I do my best not to dwell on…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, October 18, 2023, or: An Unexpected Need to Nap
Late Morning, Wednesday, October 18, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. It’s a quiet and chilly October morning here in the Tampa Bay area. As I write this, the temperature outside is 63°F/17°C under sunny skies. That cold front that passed through earlier this week must have been a strong one; the skies will continue…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, October 17, 2023, or: Weather, Walks and Writing Challenges
Late Afternoon/Early Evening, Tuesday, October 17, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, all. It’s late afternoon – early evening, really, on a somewhat cook – by Florida standards, anyway – October day. The sun is still out but it’s already low over the western horizon, and the temperature is 70°F/22°C. It’s not unpleasant – in fact, it…
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Morning, Mid-October 2023 (A Haiku)
Golden yellow sun And clear cerulean blue skies Bring fall’s cold greetings.
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