Category: Personal Thoughts
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, January 8, 2024, or: If It’s Monday, It Must Be ‘Writing Day’
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Late Morning, Monday, January 8, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire “A lot of people like snow. I find it to be an unnecessary freezing of water.”― Carl Reiner Hi, everyone. Well, it’s the start of the second workweek of the still-young 2024, and here in Madison, it is a wintry, snow-covered morning. It snowed for much…
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More Musings, More Thoughts for Sunday, January 7, 2024, or: Weekend Update, Part the Third
Hi, everyone. It’s been a few hours since my last post; it’s still rather chilly (19 degrees Fahrenheit, -7 degrees Celsius) outside, and we’re still getting light snow showers from the winter storm now affecting this part of New England. I have not yet done any of the fun things I wanted to do for…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, January 7, 2024, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second (It’s Snowing Out There Edition)
Late Morning/Midday, Sunday, January 7, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire “The snow had ceased, and the sky was a soft eggshell color, the mountains dreaming under their woolen blankets. There was a loveliness in the forest’s absence of color, its haunted dark framed by grey-white boughs, as if the snowfall had winnowed it down to the…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, January 6, 2024, or: Weekend Update, Part the First (Snow Warning Edition)
Late Morning, Saturday, January 6, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hello, everyone, and welcome to my 1,388th post on A Certain Point of View, Too. As I begin to write this entry, it is a chilly New England winter morning: the temperature outside is 27°F/-3°C under cloudy skies. The feels-like temperature is just a tad higher…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Getting Ready to End the First Workweek of 2024
Late Morning, Friday, January 5, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. Welcome to the 1,387th post in A Certain Point of View, Too. Today, obviously, is Friday, the first of the new year. It’s a bright, sunny, if perhaps frigid day here in this corner of New England. As I write this at 10:48 AM…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, January 4, 2024, or: A Day of Errands and Sightseeing in New Hampshire
Early Evening, Thursday, January 4, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. Well, it’s now 15 minutes past sunset; I usually don’t write blog posts this late in the day unless (a) I’m adding a follow-up to something I posted at my usual midday publishing hour, or (b) had to wait till late in the day…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, January 2, 2024, or: Night Falls, and One of My Remotes is MIA
Evening/Nightfall, Tuesday, January 2, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire It’s dark outside. Then again, here in the Northeast, it’s supposed to be dark after 5 PM in early January. Sunset today was at 4:18 PM Eastern Standard Time, and since that’s slightly over an hour ago, it’s pitch black outside now. Currently, the temperature is 30°F/-1°C…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, January 1, 2024, or: Goodbye to 2023, Hello to 2024
Mid-Morning, Monday, January 1, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, there, folks. Welcome to my first post of the new year – and 1,381st overall – in A Certain Point of View, Too. Well, unsurprisingly, my first New Year’s Day in New Hampshire is a chilly one. As I write this at 8:14 AM EST, the…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, December 31, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second (New Year’s Eve Edition)
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Music, Christmas 2023, Creative Writing, Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny (2023), John Williams (Composer), Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward), Movies, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Weather in New Hampshire, Winter 2023-2024Late Morning, Sunday, December 31, 2023, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. I hope that you are doing well today, which is (depending on where you are right now) either the last day of 2023 or the first day of 2024. For me, it’s late morning on the last Sunday (and day) of 2023. It’s a…
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