Category: Family History
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, July 13, 2021, or: Pulling On Emotional Scabs…Again
Greetings and salutations, Dear Reader. It is late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Tuesday, July 13, 2021. It is a hot and muggy day, and it looks as though we are in a typical subtropical summer weather pattern. The current temperature Is 82˚F (28˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 63% and the…
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Movie Watcher Memories: Indiana Jones, Mom, and Me
It’s not the years, honey. It’s the mileage. – Indiana Jones in Raiders of the Lost Ark It was 40 years ago, give or take a few days, that my mom, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, and I went to see Raiders of the Lost Ark, a new action-adventure movie produced by George Lucas, written by Lawrence Kasdan,…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, June 5, 2021, or: Broken Traditions, Lost Songbooks and the Persistence of Memory (and Grudges)
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here in New Hometown, Florida on Saturday, June 5, 2021. It is a hot summery day; the current temperature is 87˚F (30˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 55% and the wind blowing from the south-southeast at 9 MPH (14 KM/H), the heat index is 94˚F (34˚C). Today’s…
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Musings for Tuesday, April 13, 2021: or ‘Hemingway’ and Life in a House with One CATV-Connected Television Set
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning on Tuesday, April 13, 2021 here in New Hometown, Florida. Currently, the temperature is 77˚F (25˚C) under sunny skies. With the wind blowing from the east-northeast at 2 MPH (4 KM/H) and humidity at 59%, the feels-like temperature is 75˚F (24˚C). Today’s forecast calls for a high of…
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Past Time: The Curious Case of the Blu-ray Player and the Irate Sibling
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon on Saturday, April 10, 2021 here in New Hometown, Florida. Currently, the temperature is 83˚F (29˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 64% and the wind blowing from the south-southwest at 15 MPH (21 KM/H), the heat index is 84˚F (29˚C). Today, we can expect partly sunny skies…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, April 7, 2021, or: A Day in the Life of a Mad Screenwriter
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in New Hometown, Florida on Wednesday, April 7, 2021. As I write this, the temperature outside is 74˚F (24˚C) under sunny skies. With humidity at 69% and the wind blowing from the south-southeast at 7 MPH (12 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 72˚F (22˚C). Today we can…
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On Movies: My Favorite Movies from the 1960s
I was born in 1963, eight months before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. I started going to the movies in 1969; the first movie I remember seeing theaters was John Sturges’ 1963 World War II/POW action-adventure film The Great Escape. I saw that in a now-closed Bogota movie theater, the Almirante,…
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On Movies: My Favorite Films from the 1970s
On Movies: My Favorite Films from the 1970s I was born in 1963, eight months before President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas and four months before MGM released John Sturges’ The Great Escape in theaters. And, as far as I can remember, I first went to a movie in a theater –…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, March 12, 2021, or: Why I Miss My Old Home Town (While Reconciling Myself to Reality)
Hello, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon here on Friday, March 12, 2021. It’s a nice day in New Hometown, Florida; the temperature – outside – is 80˚F (27˚C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at 48% and a northeasterly breeze blowing at 6 MPH (9 KM/H), the feels-like temperature is 80˚F (27˚C). Today the high…
