Honoring the Blackstones…
On May 13, 2019, Manatee County Agricultural Museum offered a post on their Facebook page honoring Faye Blackstone. This year the museum...
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A Memoir
Largely set in Pinellas and Manatee counties, the author relives moments of a boyhood spent growing up in the 1950's and 1960's on a ranch in a rural, Cracker-cowboy environment, learning life lessons and finding solace in the natural world.
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Growing Up Floridian inspired Natalie, a two volume novel based on the real life experiences of Natalie Gray from 1943 through 1964.
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taylorm94
- Feb 20, 2022
- 4 min
A flash of pink…
Lynn’s latest watercolor. Seeing a flash of pink in the shadows along the bank of Gamble Creek startled me. Heavy strands of Spanish moss...
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taylorm94
- Jan 26, 2022
- 1 min
Gulfport Gabber interview/article
Article https://thegabber.com/gulfport-author-tells-his-rodeo-mamas-story/
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taylorm94
- Jan 15, 2022
- 3 min
Natalie’s songtrack…
Natalie, like most people in the pre and post WWII era, grew up listening to radio broadcasts as a primary source of entertainment. The...
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taylorm94
- Jan 9, 2022
- 4 min
Silver dollar memories…
Until I went through my mother’s keepsakes after she passed away in April of 2013, I had not realized she kept the first silver dollars I...
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taylorm94
- Jan 4, 2022
- 2 min
“Blackbird singing in the dead of night…”
When I first heard “Blackbird” on an AM radio station in 1969, I focused on the birdsong in the background at the end of the tune. I did...
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taylorm94
- Dec 18, 2021
- 2 min
Dragonflies…
What we, as humans, do not know about dragonflies, which have been around for more than 300 million years is substantial. According to an...
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taylorm94
- Dec 14, 2021
- 2 min
Gamble Creek
An original wooden bridge over Gamble’s Creek spanned the tannin stained waters for thirty years or so before I moved on to the Quarter...
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taylorm94
- Dec 13, 2021
- 2 min
Tiny falcon…
My wife’s recent watercolor of an American Kestrel encouraged me to take a new look at the bird and recall my first childhood...
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taylorm94
- Dec 8, 2021
- 2 min
The barn…
Moments in the barn are captured in the 10th chapter of Growing Up Floridian: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B09K2358ZM/ref=ppx_yo_dt_...
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taylorm94
- Dec 7, 2021
- 3 min
Creating prose poetry from a memoir text…
When Peter Hargitai offered the following brief review, Michael is the author of a fine memoir, Growing Up Floridian.. His lyrical...
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taylorm94
- Dec 7, 2021
- 2 min
Revisiting a review of Growing Up Floridian from 2017…
Sh*t my mom read: Growing Up Floridian by Michael Taylor Short blurbs about books that you may want to read. None of them are too taxing...
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taylorm94
- Dec 6, 2021
- 3 min
Butter…
When I read “Yellow-Rumped Warblers: Meet the Butterbutts” a few days ago in Bird and Blooms, I free associated butter with memories of...
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taylorm94
- Dec 3, 2021
- 2 min
Larks…
When Juliet asked Romeo, "Wilt thou be gone? It is not yet near day. It was the nightingale, and not the lark, that pierced the fearful...
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taylorm94
- Nov 22, 2021
- 1 min
Tangible hardback copies!
My three books, Growing Up Floridian, Natalie, A New England Girl with Cowboy Dreams and Natalie’s Dreams Take a Tropical Twist are now...
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taylorm94
- Oct 24, 2021
- 1 min
Hardback editions are published and available!
Growing Up Floridian Growing Up Floridian is a personal memoir that relives moments of a boy who grew up in the 1950's and 1960's...
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taylorm94
- Oct 22, 2021
- 2 min
Natalie’s image
The March 6, 1954 Saturday Evening Post cover by Norman Rockwell, “The Girl in the Mirror” sent my mother looking through her photo album...
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taylorm94
- Oct 22, 2021
- 2 min
Natalie
I have recently written two books that are largely set in the 1940s, 1950s, and 1960s in Reading and Great Barrington, MA and rural...
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taylorm94
- Oct 21, 2021
- 1 min
Growing UP Floridian
Growing Up Floridian is a personal memoir about me growing up in 1950’s and 1960’s Florida and learning life lessons in a rural...
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