Category: Family History
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, May 22, 2023, or: Up and About Before Sunrise – Again…
Oh, no. Not again. Not another early morning wakeup! Unfortunately, Dear Reader, as I start to write this at 8:37 in the morning of Monday, May 22, 2023, it’s been five hours since I woke up to use the facilities – and then failed to go back to sleep. I tried. I really tried to…
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More Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, May 21, 2023, or: I Will Be Getting Royalties Soon – But I Can’t Plan on Going House Hunting Just Yet…
One thing that did cheer me up today is that while I was writing Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, May 21, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second, Amazon sent me two emails to inform me that I can expect to receive at least two royalty payments. One is for the Kindle e-book edition of…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, May 21, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second
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in Adults-Only Games, Amazon, Amazon Music, Being a DIK (2020 Game), Blogging, Boston Pops Orchestra, Computer and Video Games, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Dr. PinkCake (Game Designer), Family History, John Williams (Composer), Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, MicroProse Software, Music, Personal Thoughts, Regiments (2022)Hi there, Dear Reader. Well, it’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, May 21, 2023; it’s a warm, humid, and sunny late spring day here – it’s 79°F/26°C as I write this, and the high is expected to reach 90°F/32°C by midafternoon. Another reminder, I suppose, that meteorological summer – which starts earlier…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, May 15, 2023, or Weekend Update Wrap-Up…& a SITREP on ‘The New Story’
Hi there, Dear Reader. It’s late afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on Monday, May 15, 2023. It’s the first hot early wet season day this year; outside, the temperature is 91°F/33°C under mostly sunny conditions. I have not stepped out – not even to check the curbside mailbox – so I can’t vouch for how…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, May 14, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Amazon, Beatriz Diaz-Granados, Blogging, Blu-ray Collection, Cheryl T, Computer and Video Games, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Crusade in Europe (1985 game), Crusade in Europe (Command Series game), Family History, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in South Florida, MicroProse Software, Movies, Personal Thoughts, Star Trek: The Original 6-Movie Collection, Things I MissWell, here we are, Dear Reader, on Sunday, May 14, 2023, aka Mother’s Day 2023. It’s almost 9 AM in the Tampa Bay area, the sun is out, and – for the moment, anyway, it’s cool outside; the temperature is 71°F/22°C. Overall, it’s the kind of day that, in my previous neighborhood in South Florida,…
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Tempus Fugit: April 13, 1973, Fifty Years On…
“I blinked my eyes and in an instant, decades had passed.” ― John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems It’s late morning here in my corner of Florida on Thursday, April 13, 2023. As I write this on a sunny spring day, I marvel – once again – at the (sobering) fact that 50…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, April 3, 2023, or: A Little Bit of This, and a Little Bit of That
“Monday is for people with a mission. Those who favor vacations, not weekends.” ― Cristina Imre Well, it’s just past midday here in Lithia, Florida, on Monday, April 3, 2023. I’m off to a later-than-usual start because I woke up much too early this morning. As is too common for me, I had to answer…
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On Writing and Storytelling, or: How I Spent My Friday Afternoon – Revising, Rewriting, and Re-Publishing ‘Reunion’
“Start writing, no matter what. The water does not flow until the faucet is turned on.” ― Louis L’Amour Today I spent several hours revising – first on Word, then on Kindle Create – my short story Reunion, which I originally wrote in 1998 but waited 20 years till I could self-publish through Amazon’s CreateSpace…
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Tempus Fugit: Thinking About the Tyranny of Forced ‘Joint’ Birthday ‘Celebrations’
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s Tuesday, March 7, 2023 – two days after my 60th birthday and three days before my older half-sister Vicky’s 73rd. In the last decade of my mother’s life (2005-2015), this would have been the “compromise” date on which we’d celebrate both occasions. I say “compromise” because Vicky, for reasons that…
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Tempus Fugit: On the Occasion of My 60th Birthday
“It’s paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn’t appeal to anyone.” ― Andy Rooney So, today I turn 60 years old. On the day I was born: “I’m not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming…
A Certain Point of View, Too 