Category: Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward)
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, January 12, 2024, or: Reflections on My First Month in New England…and a Progress Report on Reunion: Coda
Late Morning, Friday, January 12, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, folks. It’s just past 10 in the morning here in New England as I begin this, the 1,395th post in A Certain Point of View, Too. Although it’s cold outside – the temperature is 34°F/1°C, with a feels-like factor of 48°F/9°C, it is a lovely…
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Musings & Thoughts for Tuesday, January 9, 2024: Filling Out Forms, Doing Chores, and Rejiggering Schedules to Write a ‘First Novel’
Late Morning/Midday, Tuesday, January 9, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, there. Well, as I begin my 1,392nd blog post on WordPress, the temperature in Madison is 24°F/-4°C, with a feels-like factor of 34°F/1°C, under cloudy conditions. After a perfect – if frigid – Monday, it looks like another winter storm is going to affect Carroll…
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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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