Tag: #ComingsAndGoings
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Dear Reader, Let Me Tell You a Story…About Where ‘Comings and Goings’ Came From
Where Did You Get the Idea for Your Most Recent Book? It’s funny how inspiration works sometimes. With my novel Reunion: Coda—which I finished and published less than three months ago—the journey from spark to story was anything but fast. (Amazon pegs it at 529 pages, by the way.) The seed was planted back in…
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“Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen”
A Quote Quilt by Alex Diaz-Granados In the hush between songs and stories, there’s a kind of magic that blooms when someone looks at you—not to evaluate, but to understand. Comings and Goings hums in that space. It’s a story stitched from quiet observations, shy admissions, and the kind of memory that doesn’t fade with…
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12 Months of Change: A Writer’s Reflection on Life and Publication
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Books, Comings and Goings (Short Story), Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in Madison (NH), Life in Miami….Again, Life in New Hampshire (December 2023 – October 2024), Life in South Florida, Life in the Tampa Bay area, Life in the United States, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, UncategorizedMidday / Early Afternoon, Tuesday, July 1, 2025 – Miami, Florida“Time is passing: not leaden steppingBut sprinting on winged feet,Quick silver slipping by.” — Richard L. Ratliff It’s difficult to grasp, here on this sweltering South Florida afternoon, that another July has arrived. A year ago, my life looked completely different—geographically, emotionally, and in terms…
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‘Comings and Goings’: The Paperback Drops Tomorrow… But That’s Not the Whole Story
“When a book leaves its author’s desk, it changes. Even before anyone has read it… it is irretrievably altered. It has acquired, in a sense, free will… The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.”— Salman Rushdie, Joseph Anton: A Memoir “It was 1984, unmistakably so—Jordache and Calvin Klein…
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‘Comings and Goings’: A First Review, A Quiet Smile
A First Review, A Quiet Smile There’s something surreal about seeing your work reflected back through someone else’s eyes—especially when those eyes are kind. Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen just received its first reader review, and I’ll admit, I’m still a little stunned. Not because someone read it (though that’s always a…
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‘Comings and Goings’ – No Kindle? No Problem!*
*“A poem for readers who’ve ever been seen between the lines. Comings and Goings arrives in paperback this July 1—because some stories are meant to be held.” For When the Battery FadesOr the Wi-Fi just won’t play nice… Boston, ’84. A boy on the runFrom chatter and chaos, from everyone.A girl with eyes that didn’t…
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The Kiss That Lingered: A Memoir’s Echo Through Fiction
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Blogging, College Life, Comings and Goings (Short Story), Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Miami-Dade Community College, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, Student JournalistSome stories begin long after the moment itself. This one started in a college classroom in 1985, but it didn’t find its full voice until years later—first in memoir, then through the echoed silences of fiction. What follows isn’t just about Maria, or Marty, or Kelly. It’s about the quiet resonance of memory, and how…
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The Echo of a Smile: Memory, Maria, and the Garratyverse
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, Amazon, Blogging, Books, College Life, Comings and Goings (Short Story), Comings and Goings: The Art of Being Seen, Creative Writing, Films by Steven Spielberg, Garratyverse, Kindle, Kindle Create (Publishing App), Kindle Direct Publishing (KDP), Life in Florida, Life in Miami (1972-2016), Miami-Dade Community College, Movies, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, West Side Story (1961 Film), West Side Story (1961), West Side Story (2021)Long before Jim Garraty stood on the curb in Somerville, watching a Corolla disappear into the quiet, there was a boy sitting in a sunlit classroom, speechless at the sound of someone saying “Hi.” I wrote about Maria in Catalyst back in 1987. She was radiant, kind, and achingly real. We shared benches between buildings…
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Comings, Goings, and Waiting
Afternoon, Friday, June 27, 2025, Miami, Florida It’s a hot, humid, and gray-shrouded summer day in South Florida. Thankfully, it’s not one of those thundery “mean season” days, full of lightning bolts and peals of thunder that—according to my mom—were the sound of St. Peter scoring strikes in the Celestial Bowling Alley (and Grill). Folks…
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“Because You Were Kind. Because You Were Here.”: Why Presence Speaks Louder Than Resolution
“Because You Were Kind. Because You Were Here.”: Why Presence Speaks Louder Than Resolution There are moments in life when we think words will fix things. That if we can only say the perfect thing, take the perfect action, explain ourselves clearly enough, everything will shift. Stories often chase that kind of transformation—the big gesture,…
A Certain Point of View, Too 