Tag: Life in Florida
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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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Thoughts & Musings for Friday, February 17, 2023, or: Carefully Watched Packages – A Fabelmans Odyssey
If you’re a regular visitor to this space, you doubtlessly have come across at least one of “Closely Watched Packages” posts in which I kvetch about the progress – or lack thereof – of an online shopping order I’ve made. For obvious reasons I don’t write about every order I make on Amazon or Best…
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Tempus Fugit (Countdown to the Big Six-Oh Edition): A (School) Day in the Life, February 1973
Well, Dear Reader, with less than 17 days until my 60th birthday, it’s time for (yet) another Tempus Fugit piece related to this landmark birthday. On this day in 1973, which fell on a Friday, I was at Tropical Elementary – more likely than not – in Mrs. Chambers’ Special Education class in Room 29.…
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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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Tempus Fugit: For The Love of Movies (1973 Edition)
50 years ago, in February of 1973, I was nine going on 10 and lived in a house in Westchester – an unincorporated suburb of Miami, Florida – with my widowed mother and my older half-sister Victoria, aka Vicky. I attended Tropical Elementary, a public school that even though it was in the same zone…
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For the Love of Movies: Happy (Belated) Birthday, John Williams – and Waiting Restlessly for ‘The Fabelmans’ Blu-ray
Happy (Belated) Birthday, Maestro Williams! As I mentioned in yesterday’s post, five-time Oscar-winning composer/conductor John Williams celebrated his 91st birthday last Wednesday. Williams, whose 53 Academy Award nominations make him second only to Walt Disney as the individual with the most Oscar nominations in the history of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences…
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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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Counting Down to the ‘Big Six-Oh’ (With Some Ambivalence), or, The Year of Many Anniversaries
Tick-Tock, Tick-Tock: Countdown to the Big Six-Oh (And Other Anniversary Dates) Well, it’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Tuesday, February 7, 2023, which means I only have slightly less than 26 days until I say goodbye to my 50s and say hello to being 60 on March 5. As I’ve said in previous…
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Tempus Fugit: Then (1973) & Now (2023) – Countdown to the Big Six-Oh Edition
With the “Big Six-Oh” creeping ever closer – it is, as I write this, only 27 days away – I decided to do a comparison between Then (1973, the year I turned 10) and Now (2023, the year I turn 60). Without further ado (I’m fresh out of it), let’s begin! President of the United…
A Certain Point of View, Too 