Category: 1983-2023
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Of Sons, Mothers, and Mother’s Day PTSD
Late Afternoon, Saturday, May 10, 2025, Miami, Florida Hi, everyone. Sorry, I’m late, but sometimes, rarely, yes, but sometimes – it’s difficult to come up with a good topic for a blog post. Especially when I’m busy with other stuff, such as doing laundry, which is how I spend part of my morning and midday.…
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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 Thursday, December 21, 2023, or: ‘Alexa, Read to Me From This Book…” & Quick Life Update from Madison
Late Morning, Thursday, December 21, 2023, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, there, folks. It’s a frosty early winter day here in my corner of New England. Presently, the temperature in Madison is 25°F/-4°C under sunny conditions. The forecast for the Conway/Madison area calls for sunny skies and a high of 34°F/1°C. As we are in a…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, December 16, 2023, or: A Quick Update from Madison
A Quick Update It’s early evening here in Madison, New Hampshire (it feels strange not to type “Lithia, Florida” anymore). Because we’re in the northern latitudes, it gets dark here in winter; the sun set at 4:07 PM. It’s also cold – the temperature is 34 degrees Fahrenheit/1 degree Celsius, and we are expected to…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, December 11, 2023, or: My Last Monday in Florida (Mixed Emotions Edition)
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Late Morning, Monday, December 11, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hey, folks. This is going to be a short post; I’m even going to dispense with the usual weather report I usually write at the beginning of a new blog entry. Today is a day full of mixed emotions as it is my last full day as…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, July 22, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
Afternoon, Saturday, July 22, 2023, Lithia, Florida Another weekend – another scorching Saturday in July. It’s early afternoon here in my corner of Hillsborough County, and we are in a “heat advisory” situation until 7 PM Eastern Daylight Time. The current temperature – outside, anyway – is 93°F/34°C under mostly sunny conditions. With no rain…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, July 18, 2023, or: Hello…and Goodbye (An Unusually Quick Hit-and-Run Post )
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in 1983-2023, A Certain Point of View Too, Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, Creative Writing, Depression, Family History, Florida Weather, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in Miami (1972-2016), Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, WordPressLate Morning, Tuesday, July 18, 2023, Lithia Florida Hi, there. It’s another muggy and possibly stormy summer day in the Tampa Bay area on this, the second workday of the week. As I begin this, my 1,185th post on A Certain Point of View, Too, the temperature (outside, of course) is 84°F/29°C under mostly sunny…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, June 17, 2023, or: Commencement + 40 Years – A Tempus Fugit Piece
It’s mid-afternoon on Saturday, June 17, 2023. It’s a hot (90°F/32°C – but feels like 114°F/45°C!) early summer day in Lithia, Florida. We’ve already reached the forecast high of 90°F/32°C), and although the forecast for the Tampa Bay area calls for light showers, it’s still mostly sunny and worse, extremely humid outside. Definitely a stay-indoors-unless-it’s-absolutely-necessary…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, June 14, 2023, or: Then…and Now
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in 1983-2023, Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Blogging, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Family History, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in Miami (1972-2016), Personal Thoughts, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, South Miami Senior High School, Tempus fugitIt’s early afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on Wednesday, June 14, 2023. It’s a hot – and getting hotter – day in the Tampa Bay area; the current temperature in my neighborhood is 90°F/32°C (but feels like 98°F/36°C) under partly sunny conditions. There’s no rain or stormy weather in the forecast, but it’s going to…
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Tempus Fugit (Countdown to the Big Six-Oh Edition): Songs, Schedules, & Off-Campus Lunches…My High School Experience in February 1983
“I blinked my eyes and in an instant, decades had passed.” ― John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems With less than 18 days before my 60th birthday – the first such recurrence of a “landmark” birthday since my mother’s death nearly eight years ago (and the ensuing physical as well as the emotional…
A Certain Point of View, Too 