Category: Atlantic Hurricane Season 2023
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On Writing & Storytelling: The Weekend is Upon Us; Now My Question is: To Write…or Not to Write?
Late Morning/Midday/Early Afternoon, Saturday, September 16, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. It’s another hot, humid, and potentially rainy day in the Tampa Bay area. As I write this, the temperature outside is 86°F/30°C under sunny skies. However, with a “barely there” breeze blowing from the east-northeast at 5 MPH/8 KMH and humidity at a sticky…
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Musings & Thoughts For Friday, September 15, 2023, or: A Quick Post to Mark the End of Another Workweek
Late Morning, Friday, September 15, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. Well, we have arrived at the midpoint of September (and the third Friday of the month). Even though we are 15 days into meteorological fall (traditional fall begins next Wednesday), it’s still awfully warm and humid here in the Tampa Bay area. As I write…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Slowly, Surely, Chapter 11 of Reunion: Coda is Taking Shape
Late Morning, Tuesday, September 12, 2023, Lithia, Florida “Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!!” ― Neil Leckman Greetings, everyone. As I write this, it’s almost 10:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time here in the Tampa Bay area on this, the second day of the work week. It’s a typical early fall…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, August 31, 2023, or: First Stress, Then Euphoria…Idalia’s Passing Screws Up My Sleeping Cycle
Late Morning, Thursday, August 31, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. Well, here we are – it’s the last day of August and the last day of meteorological summer – on another torrid Thursday in the Tampa Bay area. As I write this, the temperature is 83°F/29°C under mostly cloudy skies. However, with humidity at…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, August 30, 2023, or: Hurricanes, Stress, and Writing Are Not a Good Mix
Midday/Early Afternoon, Wednesday, August 30, 2023, Lithia, Florida “Another secret of the universe: Sometimes pain was like a storm that came out of nowhere. The clearest summer could end in a downpour. Could end in lightning and thunder.” ― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe Hi, there, everyone, and…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, August 29, 2023, or: As Hurricane Idalia Approaches, the Writing Goes On (Trouble in the Tropics Edition)
Late Morning/Midday, Tuesday, August 29, 2023, Lithia, Florida “That’s something every islander knows–there’s always going to be another hurricane. Another storm. Everything buried will surface again, and everything you thought would last forever will come down eventually. But you rebuild. You dredge. You keep moving, keep adding new. That’s how we go on living.” ―…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, June 2, 2023, or: A Writer’s SITREP on The New Story
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Atlantic Hurricane Season 2023, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Florida Weather, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Life in the United States, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Summer in FloridaHi, there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Friday, June 2, 2023. It’s a nice early summer day here in the Tampa Bay area: it’s sunny, warm (76°F/24°C) and clear right now, though it’s going to be cloudy, hot (86°F/29°C) and humid later in the day. Also, the National Hurricane Center…
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On Writing & Storytelling: A New Month Begins, and I Must Go On Writing, Come What May
“In early June the world of leaf and blade and flowers explodes, and every sunset is different.” ― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Thursday, June 1, 2023. It’s a warm (77°F/25°C) first day of (meteorological) summer and the Atlantic hurricane season.…
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