Category: Florida Weather
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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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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, May 31, 2023: Adieu, Spring – And a Writer’s Anxieties Come to the Fore
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in 4K UHD Blu-rays, Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Atlantic Hurricane Season 2021, Blu-ray Collection, Books, CreateSpace Independent Publishing, Creative Writing, Family History, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Love, Sex, & Relationships, Movies, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Personal History, Personal Thoughts, Reunion: A Story, Spring in Florida, Star Trek: The Original 6-Movie Collection, The New StoryAdieu to Spring 2023 “Is it so small a thing To have enjoy’d the sun, To have liv’d light in the spring, To have lov’d, to have thought, to have done; To have advanc’d true friends, and beat down baffling foes…?” ― Matthew Arnold, Empedocles On Etna and Other Poems It’s late morning here in…
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On Writing & Storytelling: To Write or Not to Write – Today’s Pressing Dilemma
Hi, there, Dear Reader. How are you on this Friday, May 26, 2023 – or, if you live on the other side of the International Date Line, Saturday, May 27? As always, I hope you’re as well as your circumstances permit. Here in lovely Lithia, Florida, it’s a warm (78°F/26°C), humid, and sunny day, but…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Time for Another SITREP on The New Story
Hi, there, Dear Reader, and welcome to the Thursday, May 25, 2023, edition of A Certain Point of View, Too. It’s midafternoon here in Lithia, Florida, and it’s hot (84°F/29°C), dark, and rainy. It’s so dark that I just had to turn on the ceiling lamp, and I hear thunder, which of course means we…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, May 23, 2023, or: Heigh-ho, Heigh-ho, It’s Back to Work I Go….
“Summer is only the unfulfilled promise of spring, a charlatan in place of the warm balmy nights I dream of in April. It’s a sad season of life without growth…It has no day.” ― F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise Hello there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in my corner of Lithia, Florida,…
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But…It’s Spring! In Florida! (A Haiku for a Chilly May Morning in the Tampa Bay Area)
Chilly northern breeze Sends unexpected shivers To sleepy writer. (It’s 63 degrees Fahrenheit/17 degrees Celsius as I write this at 9:26 AM; it’s going to be hot later, with a forecast high of 88 degrees Fahrenheit/31 degrees Fahrenheit later in the day.)
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Lithia, 11:46 AM, 01.05.23 (A Haiku)
Rain clouds shroud the sky In a veil of grey darkness Boom! Thunderbolt strikes
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, December 17, 2022, or: Chilly Day in Tampa Bay Area Triggers Memories of Sevilla in 1988
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in Blogging, College Life, Family History, Florida Weather, Life in Florida, Life in Miami (1972-2016), Life in South Florida, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami-Dade Community College, Personal Thoughts, Semester in Spain Program, Semester in Spain Program – CCIS, Student Journalist, Student Newspaper, Winter in Florida“Fare thee well, and if for ever Still for ever fare thee well.” ― George Gordon Byron Today I woke up to an even chillier – by Florida standards, anyway – morning than I did the day before; the sun had only just risen, so it was still semi-dark outside, with temperatures in the low…
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Morning in Tampa, December 2022 (A Haiku)
Battleship-gray skies Mixed with cold Siberian winds Give me chills, goosebumps.