Category: Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 – October 2024)
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Florida’s Cold Snap Meets My Audible Warm‑Up
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Sunshine, Sweaters, and a Step Closer to Audible
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In Which Florida Chills and Kindle Create Misbehaves (Again)
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Cloudy Sunday, Light Workload, Hope for Tomorrow
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Sunshine, Cold Snaps, and Small Victories
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A Chilly Tuesday’s Update
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Cold Snap, Penny Bump
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Falling Temperatures, (Modestly) Rising Earnings
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Amazon Reviews, Amazon Spain (Amazon.es), Amazon UK, Books, Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Florida Weather, Kindle, Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Central Florida, Life in Florida, Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 – October 2024), Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Winter in FloridaTuesday, January 27, 2026 — Orlando, Florida Today’s chapter opens on a brisk—fine, let’s be honest, downright arctic by Floridian standards—January morning. At the heroic hour of 6:45 A.M., I rolled out of bed to find the temperature sulking in the mid‑30s, barely edging out a popsicle’s comfort zone (32°F/0°C). The house is mercifully warm…
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New Year, Same Writer, Slightly Fewer Dramatic Sighs
Thursday, January 1, 2026 — Orlando, Florida “And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”— Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath Well, here we are again—another year behind us, another…
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Musings and Thoughts for Sunday, December 14, 2025
Sunday, December 14, 2025, Orlando, Florida It’s a warm and sunny day in my small corner of Central Florida. The temperature – as I write this – is 77°F under mostly sunny conditions, but since we’re in the subtropical zone and there’s a lot of humidity in the atmosphere, it feels like 83°F. It’s also…
A Certain Point of View, Too 