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Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
A good fellow I met when the aviation history organization he belongs to displayed a beautifully restored B-17 at the local airport in June posted a picture of a new shoulder patch (he purchased and promised to wear) to his Facebook friends, among them mo...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Exit From Dizzyland I was getting along nicely at Dizzyland on Wabash, mostly taking pictures of control line modelers flying their airplanes and visiting often with friends Jim Richardson, Mike Evoy and others. Owner Bob Peterson seemed an older brother,...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I’ve just committed myself . . . . . now don’t get your hopes up . . . . . . . for the first time in more than a year, to memorizing a poem I have not encountered previously. The poem is Sara Teasdale’s “I Am Not Yours.” It...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
This morning, August 7 was the most perfect morning I can remember this year. It was the perfect morning, not only to mow the front lawn (about a week past due), but to spend a few hours trimming the almost obscenely neglected overgrowth on the north quar...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Three days into August and I’ve discovered a something that might have been. Early into the moving, with my patron’s permission I added a third room to the resources at the airport known collectively as AeroKnow Museum. It was the room formerl...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
In my poem entitled Tuff Tookas, the final verse begins . . . . Oh to heqwithit; here’s the poem. . . Tuff Tookas by Job Conger You have a gift, and the world doesn’t dive a gamn TUFF TOOKAS, TUFF TUFF TOOKAS! You feel lost, and you hardly kn...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Over drinks at a local hotel Friday night with friends I remarked I couldn’t understand why anyone should be afraid of sharing oral (public speaking, reciting or reading poetry and creative writing) or music with others in addition to sharing it wit...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The paucity of posts here at Honey & Quinine this month surprises no one more than me. I’m communicating with readers here the way I used to communicate with my mother after she retired to Florida in 1979. I was guided in that approach as I̵...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I grow impatient with drivers whose bodies are behind the steering wheels and whose minds are in the clouds. They’re the ones first in line at the stop light who take three seconds to react when it changes to green. They take two seconds more than I...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
There are days when I think I shall not complete the move to the new AeroKnow Museum at the airport until fall rolls around. The oppressive heat, combined with anxiety maximus over the upstairs duplex vacated two months early by a lease-breaker who gave m...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
I’d rather have two eggs over easy, a few sausage links and hash browns any day, but today, I was more interested in avoiding an “eggish” and a “meatish” in a “biscuitish” and wrapped in “paperish.” ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The past month has been a dogged routine of taking pickup truck loads of aviation history from home to the new AeroKnow Museum headquarters at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport. It’s evolved into packing the truck bed and cabin with boxes, unloading b...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
The routine of taking at least one pickup truck load a day to the new museum HQ at the airport continues. Dave Bakke’s excellent column about this bombastic review drew several encouraging comments from friends and some new support as well. I took f...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
It’s almost 10 at the Third Thursday Gallery exhibition on the second floor of Norb Andy’s Tabarin on Capital Avenue in downtown Springfield. It’s Friday night. A fellow in his 20s began playing guitar in the main hallway of the gallery ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
On May 25, the general manager of a Fixed Base Operator (FBO) at Abraham Lincoln Capital Airport (SPI) visited AeroKnow, a collection of aviation photographs, model kits, built models, books, magazines and memorabilia I have nurtured and maintained since ...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Todd Green, main man of the Green Family Stores, auto dealers extraordinaire, helped me move a glass display case when we serendipitously encountered each other at the airport today. Here’s a little background. My first outreach to the Springfield f...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
When I reached for my phone at home Sunday morning to call someone on Freecyle Springfield who had expressed interest in a computer keyboard I want to give away, I was surprised to find the line dead. Thinking maybe it was an accidentally disconnected cor...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
One of the best reasons to belong to Springfield Poets and Writers (SPandW) is the opportunity to participate in a project that will culminate at a Prairie Art Alliance Gallery II reception June 24. Last week SPandW president Anita Stienstra group-e’...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
Can I share an opinion without insulting a long-cherished friend whose scowl is a pain exceeded only by her indifference I’m going to try. To lessen the possibility, I’m relying on the assumption that she doesn’t read Honey & Quinin...
Posted by honey & quinine 1 year ago.
A former major shaker at Disney Corp. appearing on Charlie Rose Show earlier this week explained the best day of his life was when Michael Eisner (Disney CEO) fired him. Tem days later he became a partner with Stephen Spielberg and another principal and t...
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