Posted by honey & quinine 3 weeks 3 days ago.
This isn’t the first time for me. The other time was the same car before I started subtitute teaching about eight years ago. It was winter then. And it was more of an alibi than reality.
The work situation is unaffected. George Jaworski happily pick...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 weeks 3 days ago.
As Richard Nixon almost said, I am not a COOK! Still, I know how to make the most of a frying skillet.
A few weeks ago after finishing my most recently savored gallon bucket of Neapoitain ice cream, a minor revelation appeared before my eyes like a burni...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 weeks 6 days ago.
Winston Churchill, a combat veteran of World War I, once said words to the effect that there is nothing quite so thrilling to a man as the experience of being shot at in war . . . . and missed! In third place, right behind the one most obvious to healthy ...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 weeks 6 days ago.
Bob Waldmire and I were “hailed fellows, well met” when we attended Springfield Junior College in the mid 60s. I don’t know anyone who has remained who he was then as he (orshe) is today. His dad, returned from WWII, invented what Spring...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 weeks 1 day ago.
Word came late from the care repair shop. To completely fix the car will cost more than the car is worth, but it may cost less than another car that’s better. As long as I drive it in the city, it should hold together another few months without los...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 weeks 1 day ago.
Because of a computer problem, I didn’t get my car to Brahler (car repair enterprise; good people) and like an idiot, when they offered to drive me home, I declined, saying it was close enough I could walk. It was only eight blocks. They’d det...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I’ve got nothing to say.
People don’t listen anyway.
Let the loud and lame
Play their slam-jam game,
But I’ve got nothing to say.
Princes, queens and buffoons,
Snug in cozy cocoons,
Poetically inclineds
Murmer from their minds,
But IR...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
With the first issue of the State Journal-Register delivered after I renewed my subscription Friday came news that Vivian Eveloff had died. The obituary was BLINDINGLY terse in its posting in print and at the SJ-R web site. This was no doubt the design of...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I’m sure I speak for many male hummn’ beans when I say I HEAR YOU! Okay, I’m a writer for Pete’s sake (who the heck is Pete anyway) and I know you know I’m not hearing you. I’m writing a frikking metaphor here. The met...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Friday evening I received a call from a courteous young lady who began by addressing me as Mr. Conger and then asked if I’d like to subscribe again to the Illinois State Journal-Register. Before I could hem, haw and decline, she told me it was on s...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
. . . . more accurately into the phone line. I’ll tell you where they come to earth when the publication hits the stands. Speaking of which, do you even KNOW what a news stand is I wager if you’re younger than 50 you don’t. News stands ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I doing dessert before the main course. Since arising today and toddling into the office about 7:45, I’ve trascribed data from index cards into an aviation history file to be posted at AeroKnow when it’s done, postponed a small Saturday gather...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Wednesday night, the Charlie Rose show on Springfield’s fine WSEC was garbled for the last five minutes of his super interview with The New Yorker Editor David Remnick. This is the 10th year with DR in that seat with TNY, and though CR had planned t...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
It will seem strange to those who don’t know me well when I say the smartest thing I have done for myself this year is subscribing to The New Yorker. With the publication of this week’s edition — some may call it this week’s sediti...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I’ve just added a new recommended site to the list on the right. Kim read my Dodging the Candle Light Ooutcome and added a nice comment. I visited her blog The Dailies and was delighted by the profusion of colors and narration of her life. It shines...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
You tell me. The president of a neighborhood association I belong to called a board meeting to discuss a report from Leadership Springfield, and contrary to everything I understand about organization bylaws, instructed me that our membership rank and file...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
It’s been a productive day for blog posting: two here at Honey & Quinine and one at Umbrage Universal. I’m a writer. This is what I do. There aren’t enough “Sorry but”s and sulking apathetes in the world to convince me I&...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
Kudos to Prairie Art Alliance and Sangamon Watercolor Society for their fab reception July 12 at Hoogland Center! The PAA exhibition Memories features the painting of Pam Miller of Springfield and the steel sculpture of Darren Miller of Decatur. The varie...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
I’ve had a minor epifanny (as #43 might say) regarding WSEC, the Public Broadcasting System television station serving the Springfield, Illinois area. It occurred the night of July 4 at their fundraiser at Pasfield House.
Two days earlier, a friend ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 month ago.
On the day I attended Dennis Camp’s fab presentation about Vachel Lindsay and the race riots of 1908 at Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site, site Director Jennie Battles invited me to bring my guitar and some poetry to share in the back yard as ...
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