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Sunday I helped my friend George at the Springfield Home & Builders’ Show downtown. This is my third year doing this. The show is a true harbinger of SPRING as sure as plastic-sealed pallets of fertilizer and wood chips lined up on the backside ...
Posted by honey & quinine
Sunday I helped my friend George at the Springfield Home & Builders’ Show downtown. This is my third year doing this. The show is a true harbinger of SPRING as sure as plastic-sealed pallets of fertilizer and wood chips lined up on the backside ...
Posted by honey & quinine
I am lucky to live close to one of the best harmonica players I know — Mark Russillo — and three of the best guitar players I know — Sam Crain, Ocean Alexander and Job Conger, all of whom live on the 400 block of West Vine in beautiful c...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 days 23 hours ago.
Earlier this year, I was asked to write an article about the new Arcadia Publishing book Brother James Court is about to offer for sale. The “‘Court” is a residential facility for adults with learning disabilities which was established a...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 days 19 hours ago.
Get out of Cuba.
Does anyone still fear that some wacky poundin’-his-shoe-heel-at the-United-Nations-building commie Russky is going to establish a nuclear boutique in Havana that threatens Florida I think not. For one thing, if anyone’s goin...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 12 hours ago.
Another one that’s out of sequence. Sorry for the snafu.
Fifth Grade
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. . . . On my 10th birthday, September 5, 1957, dad invited me to come down to the store at closing time and promised we’d go out for dinner. We ate at a place Dad fr...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 13 hours ago.
I”m Cold Bill Put on a Sweater
by Job Conger
Life is a sad lament.
Where have the good days went
The imperfections of our fellow humanity::
a rising chorus of obscenic banality,
pompous and flaming froths,
modern-day Visigoths,
their vicious ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 1 day ago.
“When the battle of the day is won / You may be sick and tired / But you’ll be a man, my son.” The words are from the song “Pick Yourself Up,” (music by Jerome Kern and words by Dorothy (I just read it and should have writte...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 2 days ago.
I’ve not been reading the State Journal-Register, Springfield’s daily newspaper, as much as I used to. I have subscribed most of my adult life, even when not freelancing writing frequently as I am now. When I was working daily at “Rock C...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 4 days ago.
Might have been at Facebook or it might have been here that I recently lamented my new habit of coming home tired and depressed from Rock Circus and falling asleep in my chair after eating a hefty evening meal to crush my angst into a nap, awakening about...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 4 days ago.
Americans are having a rough time with the language. It’s hard for some of us to speak and write with a natural style so that we’re easily understood, fun to read and respected without offending social or ethnic sub strata of our wonderful rai...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 4 days ago.
AN APOLOGY to regular readers: On the night of Feb 27/28 I discovered I had not published what follows. If you’re following my autobio, you’ll note this post begins right after I took a major “belt” from my namesake and definer (th...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 4 days ago.
Castaway Consolation
by Job Conger
I want to tell you that my mind’s in a mess.
I’ve nearly quit my search for true happiness.
Gone is the dream I thought was mine without a hitch.
Now I’ve become a freaking son of a bit ch.
A bitter...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 4 days ago.
Biting Back
by Job Conger
When I was four years old . . .
I spelled the word “cat” with a “c a t”
and it all made perfect sense to me.
When I was six years old . . .
I leearned that a sentence ends with a dot
called a period. I nev...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 4 days ago.
Blizzards
by Job Conger
Dawn in winter takes too long
as the kinetic energy from gravity-drawn snow
distracts my storm-tossed mind’s meandering
to near-lucidity.
At four a.m. I gaze south into my backyard
that’s bathed in what the security lig...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 5 days ago.
Mr. Cline, Math is a Posterior Pain and Flying Models
Mr. Cline was my math teacher in 9th grade. He was a good guy, probably 27 years old at the time, with a great conversational delivery of complex material. Though his teaching was superlative, the ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 week 5 days ago.
I think I have arrived at iced tea nirvana. It took awhile. The going got tough after I had settled on Luzianne Family Flow (48 big ones to a box) tea bags even though I thought I had completed this one of many life quests last fall. The Family Flow bags ...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 15 hours ago.
Sea Leafs By Moonby Barbara Robinette
76 numbered pages
softbound
5 3/8 ” x 8 3/8″ plus plastic laminated bookmark
Printed by Morris Publishing
Kearney, NE
ISBN 978-0-615-31398-6
Price: $17.00 (includes postage and handling)
payable only...
Posted by honey & quinine 2 weeks 4 days ago.
Stop me if you’ve read this before. Consider it an intro to a footnote . . . .
Watching the Tide
By Job Conger
You’re contemplating.
Life passion fading.
No one to love and less and less and less anticipating.
Can this be what life after 50 is...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 weeks 8 hours ago.
About a month ago, I attended Julio Barrenzuela’s salsa dance workout with the students of Hope Institute for Children and Families. It’s the school first knowa as Hope School for the Blind, out near Lake Springfield. These days they serve dev...
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