Tag: Songs
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A Musicale for a Rainy Tuesday in October 2026
Tuesday, October 6, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hi, everyone. I’m posting this on a dark and rainy evening in Central Florida. I don’t have much in they of news, and I made so little progress with the manuscript for And the Horse You Rode in On that I won’t bore you with how my writing…
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A Thursday Serenade for an Early Autumn Afternoon
Thursday, September 24, 2026 – Orlando, Florida Hello, friends. I’m running fashionably—well, unfashionably—late on my usual blogging schedule. I normally start drafting my WordPress posts between 10:30 and 11 AM, but it’s already a little past noon. Since a decent-sized musing takes me an hour or two to coax into existence, that would push my…
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A Thursday Musicale for a Torrid Late Summer Day (August 27, 2026)
Hi, everyone. On this last Thursday of August 2026, I’m in the grip of a creative slump. Maybe it’s the heat. Maybe it’s depression. Maybe it’s a lack of fun or social engagement in my life outside the blogsphere, or maybe it’s a combination of all these things. Whatever is ailing me, I can’t seem…
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All the Things She Taught Me
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in Alex Diaz-Granados, All the Things You Are, Creative Writing, Elizabeth Joan Owen, Elizabeth Joan Owen (Ms. Owen), Life in Central Florida, Life in Florida, Life in Miami (1972-2016), Melodies and Memories: Music, Songs, and Singers, Music, Music & Concert Specials, Personal Thoughts, Reunion Duology, Reunion: A Story, Reunion: Coda, South Miami High School in fiction, South Miami Senior High SchoolAll the Things She Taught Me Tuesday, July 7, 2026, Orlando, Florida On this exquisitely hot July afternoon in Central Florida, I find myself thinking about the lasting impact truly great teachers have on our lives—and how even the smallest things can bring their memories back. That feels especially true as we grow older, and…
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(More) Songs Ms. Owen Taught Me (In Memoriam)
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 – Orlando, Florida “The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful.” — H.L. Mencken In loving memory of Ms. Elizabeth Joan Owen (September 8, 1929 – December 28, 2025), the…
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Songs Ms. Owen Taught Me (A Sunday Musicale)
Sunday, June 28, 2026, June 28, 2026 – Orlando, Florida In loving memory of Ms. Elizabeth Joan Owen (September 8, 1929 – December 28, 2025) If music be the food of love, play on; Give me excess of it, that, surfeiting, The appetite may sicken, and so die. That strain again! it had a dying…
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Sunday Spring Musicale…May 24, 2026 Edition
Hi, everyone. I started writing a post for this blog a few hours ago, but I couldn’t organize my thoughts well enough to get my ideas across on the page, so I gave up. I suppose I could have kept trying until I produced something worth reading, but I had already been writing for an…
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Songs from All My Yesterdays (A Thursday Musicale)
Thursday, May 21, 2026, Orlando, Florida Hi there, Dear Reader. It is midafternoon on a hot, humid, and potentially rainy late spring afternoon in Central Florida. As I write this, it’s just past three, and the temperature outside is 88°F (31°C) under partly sunny skies. With humidity at a sticky 59% and the wind blowing…
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A Musicale for a Torrid Tuesday in May 2026
Tuesday, May 19, 2026, Orlando, Florida Hi, there, Dear Reader, and welcome to another edition of Alex’s Writer’s Block Musicales! I don’t have any interesting topics to write about on this extremely hot late spring day in Central Florida, and I’m sure that I’ll bore you if I share another post about editing subheadings in…
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A Saturday Musicale on a Day Very Warm for May
Hi, everyone. It’s an extremely warm…nay, hot…late spring day here in Central Florida, and I don’t have anything interesting to write about, so here’s a “low effort” collection of musical videos for your listening pleasure. Enjoy!
