Tag: Life in the Tampa Bay area
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On Books & Reading: My Much Delayed Update of My TBR Pile
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in Books, Creative Writing, Fire & Steel: The End of World War Two in the West, James D. Hornfischer, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft, Peter Caddick-Adams, Star Wars Books, Star Wars: Brotherhood, The Kick-Ass Writer (Chuck Wendig), To Be Read (TBR) Stack, Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960Late Morning, Tuesday, September 19, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, all. It’s another warm early fall day here in the Tampa Bay area. As I begin this, my 366th post for 2023 and 1,265th overall since I started A Certain Point of View, Too in March 2020, the temperature outside is 80°F/27°C under mostly cloudy conditions.…
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Musings & Thoughts for Monday, September 18, 2023: Weekend Wrap-Up, and Resuming My Writer’s Journey
Late Morning, Monday, September 18, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. It’s the beginning of the third workweek in September 2023, and even though we are 18 days into meteorological fall (and five days away from traditional or astronomical fall), it still feels like summer in the Tampa Bay area. Right now (9 AM) the…
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On Writing & Storytelling: The Weekend is Upon Us; Now My Question is: To Write…or Not to Write?
Late Morning/Midday/Early Afternoon, Saturday, September 16, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. It’s another hot, humid, and potentially rainy day in the Tampa Bay area. As I write this, the temperature outside is 86°F/30°C under sunny skies. However, with a “barely there” breeze blowing from the east-northeast at 5 MPH/8 KMH and humidity at a sticky…
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Musings & Thoughts For Friday, September 15, 2023, or: A Quick Post to Mark the End of Another Workweek
Late Morning, Friday, September 15, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. Well, we have arrived at the midpoint of September (and the third Friday of the month). Even though we are 15 days into meteorological fall (traditional fall begins next Wednesday), it’s still awfully warm and humid here in the Tampa Bay area. As I write…
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Musings & Thoughts for Wednesday, September 13, 2023, or: Reaching a Writing Milestone, and Grappling with Chapter 11…Still!
Late Morning/Midday, Wednesday, September 13, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, all. So, it’s Wednesday (Hump Day) already, huh? Wow…and on Friday we’ll be in the middle of the month. (Yikes!) Tempus Fugit indeed. Here in the Tampa Bay area, though, it seems as though summer didn’t get the memo that it’s already meteorological fall, cos it’s…
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On Writing & Storytelling: Slowly, Surely, Chapter 11 of Reunion: Coda is Taking Shape
Late Morning, Tuesday, September 12, 2023, Lithia, Florida “Tuesday just called and wants to know what happened to Friday!!” ― Neil Leckman Greetings, everyone. As I write this, it’s almost 10:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time here in the Tampa Bay area on this, the second day of the work week. It’s a typical early fall…
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Musings & Thoughts for Sunday, September 10, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the Second
Afternoon, Sunday, September 10, 2023, Lithia, Florida Greetings and salutations, everyone. I am starting this post unusually late in the day; here in the Tampa Bay Area (TBA) it’s just past 1 PM Eastern Daylight Time as I begin writing my 1,256th blog post on A Certain Point of View, Too. I had one of…
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Musings & Thoughts for Saturday, September 9, 2023, or: Weekend Update, Part the First
Early Afternoon, Saturday, September 9, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, there, folks. Welcome to another edition of my Weekend Updates from the Tampa Bay area in west-central Florida. It is, of course, another scorching day in the subtropics; the current temperature outside is 89°F/32°C under sunny skies. With humidity at 54% and a feeble 2 MPH/4…
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Musings & Thoughts for Friday, September 8, 2023, or, Summer Still Simmers on ‘Star Trek Day’ – and ‘Reunion’ Gets a Trailer AND a Review!
Late Morning, Friday, September 8, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hi, everyone. Well, here we are on Friday, September 8, 2023, the last day of a holiday-abridged workweek and also the first week of both September and meteorological fall. Because of Labor Day, I still feel like this Friday feels more like a Thursday, and, as Arthur…
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Musings & Thoughts for Thursday, September 7, 2023, or: Summer Refuses to Go Away, ANOTHER Hurricane is Out at Sea, and Chapter 11 is STILL Kicking My Butt
Late Morning/Midday, Thursday, September 7, 2023, Lithia, Florida Hey, there, everyone. Well, here we are again, on a Thursday that, thanks to the three-day Labor Day weekend, feels oddly like a Wednesday. A hot, sticky, subtropical Florida Wednesday, with a dollop of yet more “Will a hurricane hit Florida?” anxiety added to the mix. Currently,…
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