Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
All the discussion about cutting off congressional funding for the brave, dedicated servicemen and women who are laying down their lives for “Operation Monkey’s Vendetta” (not the official name) have mis-directed their efforts. It is in the interest of freedom, of freedom loving legal citizens of the United States — and the united state, a [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 30, 2007 | No Comments »
Don’t kid yourself, bubba ; karma kounts! One of a parade of minor ephiphanies wafting across my transom lately is this:
To live in summer, one must engage the spring.
Feeling the hot breath of my waning zeal over the past few weeks, I decided to stop letting my resentments rule my life and to concentrate on [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 29, 2007 | No Comments »
Must tell you how impressed I am with Lincoln Magnet School on 11th. I’ve sub taught there four times, and every time I depart that building, I know I could not have better spent my time, even if I had been a passenger in the back seat of an F-16 during a practice flight with [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 27, 2007 | No Comments »
They keep you awake at night when you’d rather sail off to dreamland, I know nothing about them because sleep comes to me only when I’m too tired to keep my eyes open. This is not an essay about your furnace turning on at 1:48 am, the branch blowing against your window just before the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
None of what follows is worth a separate blog posting, so I’m putting them into this pot and stirring at low heat . . . .
Pictured above is classical guitarist Javier Calderon who played in concert at First Presbyterian Church Saturday night, the 24th. It was the best-attended Springfield Classical Guitar Concert of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 23, 2007 | No Comments »
The picture of the Lindsay family grave markers was taken from the driver’s seat of my car March 20 at Oak Ridge Cemetery. I visited the site because I wanted to have a new poem to share at the poetry reading at the Museum of Funeral Customs on Monument Avenue this coming Saturday at 1 [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 21, 2007 | No Comments »
It’s true: the fastest way to set me off like a frikking Roman candle (next to telling me you voted for 43) is to intentionally transgress against civil grammar. By civil grammar, I mean speech which suggests you attended high school before having three kids, getting married and settling down.
Over the last few days I’ve [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 19, 2007 | No Comments »
The picture above was taken Sunday afternoon, March 19 when I visited Elkhart, Illinois on assignment for the best news weekly published in the greater tri-state area. Barely visible just to center right are grave markers of Elkhart’s founder. The markers are at the top of the big hill you see every time you drive [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I hope you like the new look. It’s a positive statement. WordPress provided the picture at the very top and the template for this new approach, easier to read for all concerned.
The picture directly above was taken Saturday at jimiArt Gallery, 518 E. Monroe in cubist downtown Springfield. It’s the newest gallery in the city, [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on March 9, 2007 | No Comments »
Pictured above is classical guitarist Sharon Wayne. I photographed her during her Februyary 24 concert sponsored by Springfield Classical Guitar concert at First Presbyterian. I have posted many pictures from the concert which you may view by visiting www.civag.com/artslinks.htm and scrolling down to the link to the SCGS site. MARK YOUR CALENDARS for March 24 [...]
