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Posted by honey & quinine 3 weeks 1 day ago.
On the way to work about 11:15 a on a chilly Friday the 13th, driving streets that were still patchy with snow remaining from yesterday’s icy apocalypse, I stopped at Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site at 603 S. Fifth Street in Springfield to d...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 weeks 1 day ago.
I thought my life would improve after re-connecting my firnace and enjoying circulating warm air, but I was mistaken. In the two weeks since permitting 65 degrees of warmth in the house, turned to 55 at bedtime and kept that way until returning from eveni...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
For the past month or so, I’ve adopted a new habit of smiling into the sunshine when I’ve driving, especially before 5 pm. I’m doing this because of a minor epiphany experienced some weeks ago: when I see smiling, I want to smile back. I...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I Am a Creative by Job Conger written 11:45 pm, February 18, 2009 - Happy the soul who brandishes a pen, Jousting with the world like horseback-knightly men, Mightier than sword, with lyric acumen. I am a creative writata. - Some engage the craft by the d...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Heres’s to the Spirit by Job Conger
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Here’s to the Spirit by Job Conger written 5:30 pm, December 21, 2005 - (chorus) Here’s to the spirit of hope in our hearts – The spirit, the ghost or the flame – That shows you the sun with the gift of a smile Regardless of cred...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Yesterday at work at my employer’s granite showroom, for the four pre-teen daughters of a visiting couple, I shared,  on the new violin finish Ibanez guitar I bought for Christmas this year, a song I created about 48 years ago. The song was impr...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Season of Love by Job Conger It’s the time of the season, people go into hock buying presents for others and enduring the schlock – the retail overselling – as we push and we shove. It’s a shame we forget that it’s a season o...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I can’t remember the last time I walked from my bedroom to my kitchen for a first cup of coffee without turning on a few lights. For the past two weeks I’ve been driving out to the AeroKnow Museum, sometimes at 4:40, sometimes 6:40, all in dar...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
An artists’ coop — make that co-op — rented by a group of visual artists, serves many artists. Those that chip in and help with the rent, the visuals, use it as a studio. There are paints finished paintings, easels, works in progress e...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Some poetry bloggers have recently subscribed and probably learned by now that I don’t post poetry every day or every time here at H&Q. When I post a poem, the subject will alway begin with “new poem” followed by the title. Most of t...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
One of the rewards of most any blog, including Honey & Quinine, is touching people I would never meet, even if I could fly across oceans . . . even if I could ride in an airplane that would fly across oceans. I subscribe to several WordPress poets&#...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
My friend Joe Coffey recently explained he and his fine fam sometimes delay turning on their furnace at home until December with a little help from frequent laundry ops, cooking dinner in the kitchen for the family and sometimes a little fire in the flami...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
It seems some people are born to be (speaking in simile) like pigs. Others are born to be (speaking in metaphor) pigs. Some are born to emulate Tolstoy and ; others to emulate Sarah Silverman. I am born to be in the middle. I’ve witnessed pig tale a...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
It’s 10:26 on the “atomic clock” behind me at “work” (HAHAHAHAHA) where I’m sitting at the showroom computer. I’m wearing my usual garb for raking leaves at 40 degrees on a windless, overcast morning and over tha...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
There are dollars in my checking account. What I am about to say is not shared in desperation (as in  ”I have a terrible rash and Great God in Hebbin Above, I’m mizaba!) but in the spirit of adventure and fondling FATE with her permission an...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
A Visit to Grandpa’s House by Job Conger written 8:35 am, November 16, 2011 - She came to contemplate the treasured past of the grandfather whom she never knew, to gaze on ancient artifacts: the typewriter, old books, the bedroom too where he was born â...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
It’s a ritual of late here on the edge of the world where I work part-time on Springfield farfarfar northeast side. Or if you listen to WMAY as much as I do, you may call it a ritualTHING. Whatever you call it, It has become a part of my life, ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 months ago.
When I head out to my AeroKnow Museum on Sunday mornings to continue this 18-month saga of setting up (still) and maintaining it, I like to dress particularly well because often that’s when Springfield area citizenry visit and they are the visitors ...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
INTRODUCTION: Prairie Art Alliance’s Gallery II at Sixth at Adams features a special part of the gallery which displays the poems of several Springfield area bards, poems which inspired their visual artists to paint special creations based on the p...
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