Category: Florida Weather
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, September 5, 2023, or: A Tuesday That Feels Like a Monday? That Just Isn’t Right!
Late Morning/Midday, Tuesday, September 5, 2023, Lithia, Florida “What’s wrong with Tuesdays?” Trent asks. “Everything. Monday’s always Monday, but at least it’s the start of something new. Wednesday is hump day, Thursday’s almost Friday, and Friday brings the weekend. But Tuesday? Nada.” ― Steven Rowley, Lily and the Octopus Hi, everyone. One of the things…
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Weekend Musical Interlude, Sunday, September 3, 2023
Early Afternoon, Sunday, September 3, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. Well, here we are on the second day of the long Labor Day weekend, and it’s a hot third day of both the new month and the new (meteorological) autumn season. Here in the Tampa Bay area, the weather is still summer-like, although if my…
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On Writing & Storytelling: New Month, New (Meteorological) Season, and Persistent Writing Challenges
Late Morning, Friday, September 1, 2023, Lithia, Florida “But when fall comes, kicking summer out on its treacherous ass as it always does one day sometime after the midpoint of September, it stays awhile like an old friend that you have missed. It settles in the way an old friend will settle into your favorite…
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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 Saturday, August 26, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First (Frustrated Writer’s Edition)
Late Afternoon/Early Evening, Saturday, August 26, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone! As I write this post, it’s just past 5:15 PM on a stifling, muggy late summer day in the Tampa Bay area. The current temperature is 93°F/34°C under mostly sunny conditions. Today’s forecast called for partly sunny skies and a high of 95°F/35°C, but…
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On Writing & Storytelling: The Ups and Downs of My Writing Life
Late Morning, Friday, August 25, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hey, everyone! Here I am again on yet another hot, humid late summer day in the Tampa Bay area, getting ready to begin another workday before what promises to be yet another “meh” weekend. As I begin my 1,239th post on this blog, the temperature outside Is…
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On Writing & Storytelling: As Summer Weather Simmers Outside, Writer Makes Progress Inside
Late Afternoon/Early Evening, Monday, August 21, 2023, Lithia, Florida Well, several hours have passed since my last post, and the temperature did indeed reach 93°F/33°C or even exceeded it, cos as I write these words shortly after 6 PM Eastern Daylight Time, it is now 92°F/33°C under mostly sunny conditions. Sunset is still less than…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, August 20, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second – Trouble in the Tropics Edition
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, August 19, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
Late Morning/Midday, Saturday, August 19, 2023, Lithia, Florida “August rain: the best of the summer gone, and the new fall not yet born. The odd uneven time.” ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Hi, there, Dear Reader. Well, here it is late morning on another steamy late summer day in the Tampa…
A Certain Point of View, Too 