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Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
A Facebook friend recently reported how a customer service rep gave him such a difficult time during a phone call this morning that my Fb friend invited the representative to shove his/her (something) right up his/her (you can imagine what). In the way...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Some years ago a friend read aloud (at a gathering of literaturians) a famous poem entitled something like “When I Am Older, I Shall Wear Purple.” It was written by a woman for women, it seemed, and I subsequently wrote a poem “When I Am...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
teach the world to sing. I do not teach the world to sing, but I would like to. tell the red-haired girl over by the swing-set that my heart does back flips when I see her. I have not told the red-haired girl. I will not tell the red-haired girl, but I wo...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The stats helper monkeys at WordPress.com mulled over how this blog did in 2010, and here’s a high level summary of its overall blog health: The Blog-Health-o-Meter™ reads Wow. Crunchy numbers A Boeing 747-400 passenger jet can hold 416 passengers...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
During the Vietnam War which was going on when I was draft age, many protestors at rallies carried signs that read “MAKE LOVE — NOT WAR” in the course of urging the disengagement of our military from a minor East Asian nation we didnR...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
When I was 25 years old and awakened at 6 am, I’d pull the covers over my head and catch another 40 winks until the alarm went off at 7. On Christmas Day when I found myself awake a few minutes before 6 a, I rolled out of the sack and into the home ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
To me there is no greater indictment of a man — not counting action taken by uniformed officers enforcing the law – than to be single, straight and 63. It’s not that I wear clothes with horizontal black stripes over white with my ankle...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Christmas 63 Agenda by Job Conger Intended to be sung to the tune of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas,” I don’t know that the song HAD an introduction melody/verse before the familiar song began, but I wrote one anyway. Make up your o...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
And she’s a Virginia Conger from Minnesota. In turn, because her blog is nicely presented, I’ve subscribed to hers. The fact that a stranger — not a friend (though I presume at least as much from her initiative and obvious smarts) &#...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I’m backing out of the arts. Maybe this is just for the winter; I sure hope it is. There’s more adventure at the airport and the AeroKnow Museum — www.aeroknow.com — and there are things to be done out there. I feel a compulsion &#...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Meet a fine fellow named George who is an aviation enthusiast, a fan of Springfield poet Vachel Lindsay (in whose home I photographed him during a visit to Springfield in 2008) and a friend o’ mine. He is also a jewel who shines when h...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Last week I noted at Facebook that I was living in a house with a broken furnace, working (as a volunteer) at an aviation museum that has no heat and commuting in a truck with a broken heater. A few days later I was fiddling with the panels on my furnace ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
It’s not like a jabberwonk (like me) to be absent from bloggery for long stretches. You’d think that the carbonated vanity in my chemistry would effuse that it’s better to say something than to say nothing at all, and I’m bothered ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Last Sunday I took a cab home from the airport because my truck had lost electrical as I neared the parking lot, and I found late in the day that it was unfixable on site. Truck’s owner returned the vehicle to me Friday, said he maintenance fellow s...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
When I was a kid, I collected Beatles, Billy Joel and Mozart records. For most of the past 20 years, I’ve collected books by my favorite poet born and raised in Springfield, Illinois. His name is Vachel Lindsay, and if you’re not familiar with...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
While reading Buff Carmichael’s list of Facebook friends, I discovered he’s connected to Stuart Laird who shared a terrific ride in a Navion with Jim Richardson and me up in Peoria in 1962. Stuart is connected via Fb to a terrific fellow I kne...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
A fantastic new resident is committed to leasing upstairs starting Nov 1. It probably shouldn’t bother me that I lost the $100 bill she gave me on the front porch a few nights ago, but it does. I’ve been without a vehicle since the loaned pick...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I’m Cold Bill Put on a Sweater by Job Conger Life is a sad lament. Where have the good years went Gross imperfections of our fellow humanity A rising chorus of obscenic banality, Pompous and flaming froths, Modern-day Visigoths. Their vicious diatr...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Even though Kirk Farah hasn’t posted the podcast of my interview with him last Wednesday on WMAY, 970 on the AM dial, I’m still a listener because I feel my brain gets a workout when he’s on the air, same as I do with Jim Leach who com...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I had been running hot and cold over whether or not to purchase an obituary for my brother Bill who died recently. When my mom died in 1989, I didn’t have to pay for the obituary I wrote for publication in the State Journal-Register. When my dad die...
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