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 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
Thining about the duo ditting with Frank and Nancy Sinatra. with the line “Then I go and spoil it all by saying something stupid like ‘I love you.’” In the song, they mean “saying something stupid like (meaning for example; N...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
The principal of a central-east middle school where I substitute taught Monday explained to the class that good folks like me who would rather share time teaching ithree days a month instead of selling French fries 26 days a month for the same hourly wage...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
The Museum of Funeral Customs, 1440 Monument Avenue invites all poets to an annyal poetry reading in the spring. Poems shared may be their own or a favorite poem by someone else. All poems by the presenters are published (with their permission) in an annu...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
The Museum of Funeral Customs, 1440 Monument Avenue invites all poets to an annyal poetry reading in the spring. Poems shared may be their own or a favorite poem by someone else. All poems by the presenters are published (with their permission) in an annu...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
I taught Latin today.
And I shared some Vachel Lindsay with Fifth Hour because they meritted it. Every class requested it. As I explained to Sixth Hour, my first goal is to engage the subject at hand: in this case Latin. If the students allow me success...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
(Pictured above: Photographed March 12, 2008, the memorial marker indicating the site of Springfield, Illinois’ first airport. In the background is essentially the same soil and trees that Charles Lindberg knew when he passed “through”...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
In 1977 I was newly hired out of graduate school to write media releasses for Congressional Candidate Peter F. Mack. I sent out an advisory that he would hold a gathering at his house (on South Grand, across from Washington Park), that reporters were ...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
I was delighted to be asked to be a part of Poetry Out Loud this year, first as prompter for the Springfield-area regional, which did not include a high school in Springfield (danged if I know why not; I respect the organizers’ approach) and as one ...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
If you EVER are asked to write a book, and to target a deadline for the completion of your part in the production of that book, and you’ve never written a book for a national publisher you admire and respect, take my advice when I say. . .
Befire y...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
Last week I posted a picture of a fellow stahding in front of a small biplane he owns and flies.Years ago when I met him, he asked me not to tell others his name and what he did/does for a living, and I promised I would not. In last week’s posting I...
Posted by honey & quinine 5 months ago.
It’s been a nutty week, a surfeit of constructive action.
For the first time this academic year, I was asked to substtute teach two days in a row: Thursday at a prominent north side high school and Friday at a prominent west side high school. Both d...
Posted by honey & quinine 6 months ago.
You can bet your bippy it was a sullen Tuesday with a dead car and so much to do with The Book. I stayed wtih the proto-captioning the rest of afternoon and over dinner, kept one eye and ear on Nova’s terrific program and the Mark Twain book by...
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