Tag: Life in Florida
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Tempus Fugit: April 13, 1973, Fifty Years On…
“I blinked my eyes and in an instant, decades had passed.” ― John Mark Green, Taste the Wild Wonder: Poems It’s late morning here in my corner of Florida on Thursday, April 13, 2023. As I write this on a sunny spring day, I marvel – once again – at the (sobering) fact that 50…
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Edith Wharton’s ‘Echoes of the Past’ (‘Reunion’ Reimagined in Wharton’s Style by Bing AI)
Why I Am Collaborating with Bing Chatbot As of late, I have been playing with Microsoft’s OpenAI (aka Bing Chatbot) by asking it to take snippets from my recently re-published novella, Reunion, and reimagine them in the styles of famous writers, including William Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, Tom Clancy, and Ernest Hemingway. Why am I…
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Questioning Our Own Crusade: Bing AI Reimagines ‘Reunion’ in the Style of Edgar Allan Poe
As you know, acting on advice from my former journalism adviser and mentor, Prof. Peter C. Townsend, I recently revised and re-published Reunion: A Story, a novella that I originally wrote in 1998 and self-published in 2018 through Amazon’s CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (paperback) and Kindle Direct Publishing (e-book). Although Reunion is a work of…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 9, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second
“Sunday is the golden clasp that binds together the volume of the week.” ― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, April 9, 2023. It’s also Easter Sunday 2023. It’s a somewhat cool and cloudy day here in the Tampa Bay area, and the house is quiet and peaceful, with only…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Carving Out Reading Time in Order to Write (Better) – The Saga Continues
It’s late morning in Lithia, Florida, on Friday, April 7, 2023. As the second movement (allegro sostenuto) from Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor plays in my Amazon Music app, I am, once again, thinking about finding a workable balance between writing, reading, and leisure time. As it stands, I spend most of…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, April 6, 2023, or: Carving Out Time to Read (and Other Challenges)
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s late morning here in Lithia, Florida, on Thursday, April 6, 2023. I just finished my second – and last – cup of morning coffee, and even though I have caffeine in my system, I’m still a bit sleepy. Clearing the cobwebs up in Brain Central is not as easy as…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, April 3, 2023, or: A Little Bit of This, and a Little Bit of That
“Monday is for people with a mission. Those who favor vacations, not weekends.” ― Cristina Imre Well, it’s just past midday here in Lithia, Florida, on Monday, April 3, 2023. I’m off to a later-than-usual start because I woke up much too early this morning. As is too common for me, I had to answer…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, April 2, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second
Hi, there, Dear Reader. It’s early afternoon in Lithia, Florida, on Sunday, April 2, 2023. I’m off to a late start because Windows 11 tried to update itself this morning, but it didn’t complete the process because my hard drive didn’t have enough storage space. So, I spent some time looking at apps that I…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, April 1, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
Another weekend, another month. Another quarter-year. It’s early afternoon here in Lithia, Florida, on Saturday, April 1, 2023 – another warm, humid, and sunny day in the Tampa Bay area. And as I sit here in what, for now, is my bedroom/writing room/mancave, I am, for once, not thinking about my new story (or, at…
