Tag: Life in Florida
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, November 24, 2022, or: Weird Dreams
“Wiseass,” the old man said with gruff wry amusement. “Third condition: It’s a one-way trip back to 1972. This isn’t like in that Stephen King story, ’11/22/63,’ where there’s a gateway back to 2022 that you can slip through whenever you want. This is a one-way trip back in time.” “Well, that’s okay. There’s nothing…
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School, 1972 Revisited -(June 1983): Haiku #6
Springtime’s warm embrace Clasps the haunted wide schoolground First love’s promise smashed.
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School, 1972: Haiku #4
Blue skies and white clouds High above the packed schoolyard Below, sad goodbyes
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School, 1972: Haiku #2
For Cheryl T…Wherever She May Be Winter’s chill comes now Pink wool sweater warms your skin Teardrops fall like leaves
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Tempus Fugit: Remembering Cheryl T- 50 Years Later, Part the Third
As I stood there, Cheryl gave me a quick hug, then stepped back a few steps, her eyes fixed on me. Then, without a moment’s hesitation, Cheryl straightened up and unbuttoned her pink sweater. Even though it was cold and her blouse was made from the same material as my shirt, she doffed the sweater…
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Tempus Fugit: Remembering Cheryl T. – 50 Years Later, Part the Second
Last Time, on Remembering Cheryl T….. “You can love someone so much…But you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” ― John Green “There’s no love like the first.” ― Nicholas Sparks When I was nine years old and a third-grader at Coral Park Elementary School, I fell in love with…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, November 3, 2022, or: Movies, Moods, and Aspirations
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in Amazon, Books, Disney+, Emmanuelle (1974), Emmanuelle 2 (1975), Emmanuelle 3/Goodbye Emmanuelle (1977), Erotic Movies, Films by Steven Spielberg, Hell to Pay: Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947, Military History, Movies, Movies & Television, Operation Downfall, Star Trek: The Original 6-Movie Collection, Star Trek: The Original Motion Picture 6-Movie Collection, Star Wars, Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga, The Color Purple, The Mist (2007), To Be Read (TBR) Stack, World War II (1939-1945)From Books to Movies Since yesterday I posted about my infamous To Be Read (TBR) list and how I tend to read different books about the same topic (for instance, the invasion of Japan that mercifully did not take place), today’s installment of A Certain Point of View, Too will be about the To Be…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, October 31, 2022, or: Things I Miss
Things I Miss (An Incomplete and Ever-Changing List) “People often miss things that don’t exist–miss things that were but are not anymore.”― Sarah McCoy, The Baker’s Daughter “I want everything back, the way it was. But there is no point to it, this wanting.”― Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
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On Blu-ray Discs and Blu-ray Collecting: My Collection Gets a Bit Spicy with the Addition of the 1970s-era ‘Emmanuelle’ Trilogy
On Movies & Collecting – An Update on My Blu-ray Collection I love movies. After reading, which was – and always will be – my “first love” where pastimes are concerned and is the main reason why I’ve always wanted to write, movies rank a close second. So much so, in fact, that when I…
A Certain Point of View, Too 