Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
Did I share this picture earlier Dan N’s recent comments prompted this post. I was a course volunteer who stood at my assigned post at Spring at Scarritt and waved to the participants in Springfield Road Runners Half Marathon. It was a perfect day...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
but fust a little ketch up . . .
Had an “interesting” Sunday. Wrote the review for the Springfield Classical Guitar Society web site, grabbed some groceries and brought my space heater back to the office from summer storage in the basement....
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
I have an arrangement with a friend across the street. Because I believe that buying a power mower for a task engaged as rarely — at max — 20 times a year, and because he has a safe place to store a power mower, and because I wanted to be a fr...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
When I was 15 or 16, I sat down at the dining room table with pencil in hand, and instead of drawing an airplane, I looked at a snapshot of my smiling nephew Bobby Shymansky probably 6 at the time, and drew his portrait. It was a matter-of-fact thing. No ...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
How sweet it WAS. TASTY!
If I experience another evening of poetry half as enjoyable as Wednesday night (April 23) at the library of MacMurray College, I will consider all I’ve written, all I’ve learned, all I’ve practiced worth every m...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
From little acorns forests grow. Proof positive When the Funeral Customes Museum had its sixth annual reading earlier this year, MacMurray College English prof Robert Seufert (a regular for years) encouraged his students Brett and Rachel (they’re a...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
I did the following as an individual poet; not as an employee of anyone. So if you don’t approve of what I’m about to describe, don’t complain to Springfield School District 186 Superintendentr Dr. Milton. If you do approve, please let ...
Posted by honey & quinine 3 months ago.
I wanted to post at Honey & Quinine Saturday after spending nine hours burning aviation history book pictures onto two CDs I’d be sending to my editor Monday, but I didn’t.
I wanted to post here Sunday after writing the final four chapters...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
Gold star for YOU if you know what lyric and song — and composer of lyric and song — that headline apes.
Wednesday I finished writing the last of 209 photo captions for the Arcadia book and sent them in my my favorite Chicago-based editor. It ...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
Saturday was as productive as hoped, and my reward was the final concert of Springfield Classical Guitar Society which featured the first vocal/guitar duet in their ten year history. Chanson du Soir, David Isaacs, guitar and Chelsea Camille, soprano gave ...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
I jogged from my car in the parking lot to a side entrance at a modern west side middle school because I was running late. I had lingered at the computer because I accidentally edited and published a blog PAGE instead of a POSTING (see Friday Book Report...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
If I weren’t afraid to return to bed and trust the snooze alarm to awaken me in time to prepare for my second day of substituting this week I wouldn’t be writing this right now.
My heart is being beaten bloody with the book deadline, and if I...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
bur first . . . . Subbed at a fine northside high today and had an excellent adventure. Encounterd another sub (HELLO SCOTT!) who reads my blog. Not only can he read; he seemed like a nice hummin’ bean. I was a mite out of sorts after arriving after...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
If I told you what I really feel re my missed Arcadia book deadline (It was due today; I have at least another week to go with it; maybe less.) I’d make about five people really mad, so I’m going to have to wait for them to die before I sit do...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
. . . This just in . . . . dateline MacMurray College, Jacksonville . . . . . the date of the Montage poetry reading where earnest blogger has been invited to recite for awhile, has been changed to Wednesday, April 23. If you would like to attend this eve...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
I’m coming down to the finish line preparing my Arcadia Puublishers’ book Springfield Aviation to go to my highly esteemed editor. The only major problem I’m having is finding information about the airports established and run by Bud F...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
So I was returning home from visiting an air park near Springfield to take a few pictures for THE BOOK and as I glanced at one of those really rural “subdivisions” where everyone has their own septic tanks, the name hit me like a blog topic. I...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
Before things turned dicey yesterday, I received an invitation to recite some of my poems and some of Vachel Lindsay’s poems at MacMurray in late April. The occasion is the publication of the college’s annual arts anthology Montage. I will op...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
With the light in the office this morning an eerie, brownish, warm, almost supernatural hue of mournful gray, I was hit in the brain by a phrase which I thought lend itself to a poem I will write after I’m done with the aviation book. I wrote it dow...
Posted by honey & quinine 4 months ago.
Things are going well for the book.
I have a question for everyone reading this blog: Do YOU care to know about airshow pilots passing through Springfield, performing at Air Rendezvous who died elsewhere during what would prove to be their final perf...
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