Category: Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 and Onward)
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On Writing & Storytelling: Pushing the Story (Slowly) Forward in the ‘One with the Emails’ Chapter
Late Morning, Friday, January 19, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. It’s a chilly, cloudy day here in my corner of New England. Currently, the temperature is 11°F/-12°C, but it feels a bit warmer (23°F/-5°C) than that. Today’s forecast for the area calls for mostly cloudy skies and a high of 24°F/-4°C. Tonight, we can…
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On Writing & Storytelling: The Chapter with the Emails Moves Forward…One Romantic Email at a Time
Late Morning, Thursday, January 18, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, there, folks. It’s almost 9 AM Eastern Standard Time as I begin my 1,401st post on A Certain Point of View, Too. Once again, it’s been one of those long mornings when I wake up much earlier than I need to, can’t get back to…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, January 14, 2023, or: And on the Seventh Day, the Writer Rested…(After a Trip to Market Basket)
Early Afternoon, Sunday, January 14, 2024, Madison, New Hampshire Hi, everyone. I am writing this, the 1,397th post in A Certain Point of View, Too, later than usual. I needed to go to the Market Basket in North Conway because I was running low on groceries. If the weather hadn’t been so lousy yesterday, Marc,…
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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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