Tag: Beatriz Diaz-Granados
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Tempus Fugit: Thinking About the Tyranny of Forced ‘Joint’ Birthday ‘Celebrations’
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s Tuesday, March 7, 2023 – two days after my 60th birthday and three days before my older half-sister Vicky’s 73rd. In the last decade of my mother’s life (2005-2015), this would have been the “compromise” date on which we’d celebrate both occasions. I say “compromise” because Vicky, for reasons that…
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Tempus Fugit (Countdown to the Big Six-Oh Edition): Hazy, Fragmented Memories of Birthdays in Colombia
If you’re a regular visitor of this space, you know that both my older half-sister Vicky and I celebrate – or observe, or endure – our respective birthdays just five days apart in early March. Vicky was born on March 10, 1950, while I came along nearly 13 years after on March 5, 1963. I…
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Tempus Fugit (Countdown to the Big Six-Oh Edition): Late Winter 1973 – Waiting, with Bated Breath, for the Big One-Oh
Things I Remember: February 1973 With just a bit over two weeks till my 60th birthday – date-wise it’s 15 days, but today is half-over – and with no clue as to what will happen on that day (I nixed a trip to a Disney park due to concerns about exposure to COVID-19), my thoughts…
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Tempus Fugit (Countdown to the Big Six-Oh Edition): Songs, Schedules, & Off-Campus Lunches…My High School Experience in February 1983
“I blinked my eyes and in an instant, decades had passed.” ― John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems With less than 18 days before my 60th birthday – the first such recurrence of a “landmark” birthday since my mother’s death nearly eight years ago (and the ensuing physical as well as the emotional…
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Goin’ Home…from Winn Dixie – Winter 2013 (A Haiku)
Sunny, windy day Avenue teeming with traffic The cart’s wheels rattle.
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Tempus Fugit (Countdown to the Big Six-Oh Edition): Then (1973) & Now (2023) Revisited
“We don’t really grow up. Our toys change with time.” ― Nitya Prakash In February of 1973 – around the same time that Sam Ervin, a Democratic Senator from South Carolina, was named Chairman of the Senate Watergate Committee, and the Evangelical-Lutheran Church in Denmark became the first Christian organization to officially accept gay marriage…
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Tempus Fugit: Monday, February 5, 1973 – The Big One-Oh is Only Four Weeks Away (50 Years On)
Countdown to the Big Six-Oh As I write this in the late morning of Sunday, February 5, 2023, there are less than 28 days (four weeks!) until I leave my 50s – which, sadly, have not been as happy or fulfilling as I’d hoped – and turn 60. I am hoping that when March 5…
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Old Photographs (A Haiku)
Ancient photographs Sepia, faded color, and duochrome; Oh, how time doth fly.
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, January 30, 2023, or: Insomnia Strikes Again, the Clock Ticks as My 60th Birthday Comes Nigh, and Other Concerns
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in Lithia on Monday, January 30, 2023, and as far as I can tell, it’s a nice – if a bit humid – Florida winter day. (Of course, by the time I publish this, it will be early afternoon; I’m a mostly accurate typist, but not a…
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On Books & Reading: My TBR List – Some Progress is Better Than None, I Suppose
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in Alfred Coppel, Books, Code-Name Downfall: The Top-Secret Plan to Invade Japan – and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, Ian Doescher, James D. Hornfischer, Military History, Much Ado About Mean Girls, Operation Downfall, Peter Caddick-Adams, Star Wars, Star Wars Books, Star Wars: Brotherhood, The Burning Mountain: A Novel of the Invasion of Japan (1983), To Be Read (TBR) Stack, Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960, World War II (1939-1945)Since I posted about my To Be Watched (TBW) list for late January yesterday, today I decided to do a quick update to my current To Be Read (TBR) list for the same period. (I would have preferred to review Code-Name Downfall, but my brain balks at the prospect of doing that now.) The Impediments…
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