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Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Bill’s stepdaughter Marjorie posted this picture on Facebook, and because it’s public enough for that fab social medium, I trust it’s street legal for Honey & Quinine. I also hope the fine obituary is street legal for t...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Springfield Poets and Writers sponsored a second evening of Poets and Painters at Prairie Art Alliance (PAA) in post-modernist downtown Springfield a few nights ago, a great success in terms of audience and participating poets. Some weeks ago, poets were ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
In mid-summer, I deduced — from Facebook notes passed between the children of my computer un-savvy brother Bill and I — that Bill was in serious trouble with liver trouble. His family was organizing a fundraiser to help pay for a transplant li...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I was home less than five minutes from a busy day when I checked in at Facebook and found a message from my niece Carolyn Conger Demefak. It was not good news. Bill died today. I’ll blog more about this in a few days; just wanted to let his friends ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I was disappointed three months ago when an acquaintance I had credited with a modicum of integrity had proven me wrong this summer when I broke his lease and departed for St. Louis. After two months of trying, I decided to lease the place to the only p...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Good people who are smata than moi, occasionally extoll the virtues of butter over what appears to be the bio-hazard of the 21st Century known as margarine. The origins of the condiment (better appellations for it are welcome. Post yours in Comments.) dat...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Without getting mystic about it, I’ve never had hangups about giving credit for what has sometimes seemed supernaturally good luck to the unfathomable, beneficent whimsy of my omniscient creator acknowledged by much of humanity. His names are many: ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
From Marjorie Smith “Mom took Bill to the UofM yesterday for a liver scan, and they decided to admit him to drain his abdomen again. So, here we are, Mom’s sleeping in a chair at the hospital (just a different hospital), I’ll be t...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I don’t think too much of him. Neither do I think too little of him. (opposite of much) I think exactly how much I choose to think of him, and that is enough. If I thought too much of him, I understand this obsessive compulsion (disorder) would work...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Call him Rush. I did. We met when I walked into the living room around midnight almost two weeks ago to douse the electric lantern I call a television and go to bed. Rush was on the table beside my easy chair dining on chicken bones I had left on a plate ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
There was a crowd around the entrance to a theater I approached as I walked from my hotel to the theater where I would attend to “A Funny Thing happened on the Way to the Forum.” There were also police mounted on horseback. I was told Elizabet...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Word from Marjorie is that my brother Bill — in line for a liver transplant — was discharged from the hospital yesterday after nine days. There are still tests to complete but there were conflicts in coordinating the rest, and Bill just wanted...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Up to now — Summer of 1964: I’m taking the high school senior trip with many associates to Washington, DC and New York City on GM&O and Pennsylvania Central. We passed through Pittsburgh steel mills in the heart of the night and arrived ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I had to write the numbers on paper and subtract 1947 from 2010 to be sure I had the math right. I have stopped counting, but I haven’t stopped remembering the day. And this, more than any other day of the year, more than Christmas, is the day when ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Playing guitar and singing at a gallery reception reminds me of grocery shopping with mom when I was five years old and being attracted to darn near every package of cookies I saw in the cookie aisle. There were so many times I wanted to stop and look clo...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The following was posted by Marjorie at Facebook re Bill Conger whom we HOPE is in line for a liver transplant. I will copy and paste to Honey & Quinine as I learn more. “Bill’s current status: Still at Baptist in Kendall waiting to be tak...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The last few months have not generated as many posts as say, the same time last year. August, as initial frustration over nil help with the move to the AeroKnow Museum at the airport seemed to blossom into hope (as well founded as the heart-felt assurance...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
My brother William Harrison Conger came into the family two years after me and 14 years after our sister Dorothy. Bill and I went our separate ways, and he’s been living in Florida many years. During those years, from what I observed during our corr...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
A few days ago, I arrived at AeroKnow Museum at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport for another afternoon of shuffling it into shape before letting the world beyond just us friends know about it. Walking to the truck I saw two linemen (the hard-working gents ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
In August 2009, I was working 40 hours a week at The Granite Guy. This spring I began working 26 hours a week, and in recent weeks I’ve been working 12 hours or fewer. He owes me $2,400 back pay. I still drive the truck George loaned me, but my re...
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