Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I can’t observe the woeful dimunition of East Side language skills, based on a higher collective norm in the United Snakes of America without noting, to my profound regret the pathetic parallel on WRSP Fox Channel 55’s 9:00 pm news Sunday nigh...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
If you didn’t read UPSTR#4, that’s okay. No need to back track. Suffice to say here that I was bemoaning the lack of incentives substitute teachers have to encourage students they encounter for (typically) one day in their lifetimes to settle ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Did you gnow (the “g” is silent, as in know) a substitute teacher is entitled to work only 90 days in the nine-month school year for Springfield School District 186 Subs may work morer days if they sign up with school districts beyond Springf...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
. . . . no pun intended.Pictured here: Sluch Dog - Springfield resident, and polemical satarist
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You’d think broadcasters would have spotted the pot hole on the rainbowed high trail to white crinoline civil tonguery by now, but they have not, so it...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
. . . . no pun intended.Pictured here: Sluch Dog - Springfield resident, and polemical satarist
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You’d think broadcasters would have spotted the pot hole on the rainbowed high trail to white crinoline civil tonguery by now, but they have not, so it...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
We’ve been tenting tonight on the old camp ground.
Give us a song to cheer
Our weary hearts, a song of old
And the friends we loved so dear.
Many are the hearts that are weary tonight.
Wishing for the war to cease.
Many are the hearts that are wishi...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
DATELINE: classroom Friday:From my desk 25 feet away, I heard her say, “He ain’t no ree teachyanyway.” and I replied in a voice the whole class could hear as I continued to focus my face on the lesson plan I was reading silently up to t...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Coming soon to the my fave websites list on the right (no political affiliation implied) is a link to the Charlie Rose Show page. I will now pause a few seconds so most of you can say back to your computer monitor, “Who CARES” (an old Jack B...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
George and Melissa were a storybook couple
When Melissa heard a terrible tale
How George’s cousin, long-removed,
Robbed a bank of her great grandfather’s
And wound up doing time in jail.
Now she thinks that Georgie owes her
For some craven, ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I was 32 when I purchased the first pair of blue jeans I had worn since junior high. My paramour Penny Wright insisted. She felt they would liberalize me, impart an affectation of human-like earthiness to my convivial but starched underwear demeanor. A...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
When my valued acquaintance Rich Saal called from the State Journal-Register last June, asking if that fine paper might cover my activities at Springfield Air Rendezvous, I was floored. The joy of the flight with the U.S. Jet Team flying French-built Foug...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
If youre old enough to remember the wonderful weekly show on NBC hosted by great Briton David Frost (years before his accalimed Nixon interviews) called That Was The Week that Was, theme song sung by American Nancy Ames() . . . . well probably never do c...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
blossoming hopefuls
primary campaigns
spring dandelions
Job Conger
Which one will I pick Probably none of them.
When I encountered the first dandelions of spring, on March 29, I rushed to grab my camera, to photograph them before they disappeared. I en...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
All the discussion about cutting off congressional funding for the brave, dedicated servicemen and women who are laying down their lives for Operation Monkeys Vendetta (not the official name) have mis-directed their efforts. It is in the interest of free...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Dont kid yourself, bubba ; karma kounts! One of a parade of minor ephiphanies wafting across my transom lately is this:
To live in summer, one must engage the spring.
Feeling the hot breath of my waning zeal over the past few weeks, I decided to stop lett...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Must tell you how impressed I am with Lincoln Magnet School on 11th. Ive sub taught there four times, and every time I depart that building, I know I could not have better spent my time, even if I had been a passenger in the back seat of an F-16 during a ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
They keep you awake at night when youd rather sail off to dreamland, I know nothing about them because sleep comes to me only when Im too tired to keep my eyes open. This is not an essay about your furnace turning on at 1:48 am, the branch blowing against...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
None of what follows is worth a separate blog, so Im putting them into this pot and stirring at low heat . . . .
Pictured above is classical guitarist Javier Calderon who played in concert at First Presbyterian Church Saturday night, the 24th. It was t...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The picture of the Lindsay family grave markers was taken from the drivers seat of my car March 20 at Oak Ridge Cemetery. I visited the site because I wanted to have a new poem to share at Saturday (March 24, 1 pm) poetry reading at the Museum of Funeral ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Its true: the fastest way to set me off like a frikking Roman candle (next to telling me you voted for 43) is to intentionally transgress against civil grammar. By civil grammar, I mean speech which suggests you attended high school before having three ki...
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