Life in South Florida – Page 11 – A Certain Point of View, Too

Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, December 17, 2022, or: Chilly Day in Tampa Bay Area Triggers Memories of Sevilla in 1988

Dec 17, 2022

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“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…

Tempus Fugit: Remembering Cheryl T: Music from the Original Blog Soundtrack

Nov 22, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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Last week, as many of you know, I wrote a series of posts in the “memoir” category I call Tempus Fugit (Time Flies) about a boy, a girl, and their painfully brief schoolyard romance at Coral Park in November of 1972. I called it Tempus Fugit: Remembering Cheryl T – 50 Years Later, and even…

Tempus Fugit: Remembering Cheryl T- 50 Years Later (Epilogue)

Nov 21, 2022

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Alex Diaz-Granados

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I never even talked about Cheryl much with “the girl who came after,” and – I don’t know why the fuck I did this – what little I did say was not true. I don’t remember what cockamamie story I told K the few times that she asked about the girl I had left behind,…