Posted in writing on March 31, 2008 | No Comments »
. . . 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 event and plan to drive [...]
Posted in writing on March 30, 2008 | No Comments »
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 Fleck. The first one, which is noted in a 1930s Springfield City Directory indicates it was located [...]
Posted in thoughts, writing on March 29, 2008 | No Comments »
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. It hit me so hard there was no need [...]
Posted in arts, writing on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
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 open the event and will be followed by Mac students reading (or reciting) works [...]
Posted in thoughts, writing on March 27, 2008 | No Comments »
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 lends itself to a poem I will write after I’m done with the aviation book. I wrote it down. If you like the phrase I [...]
Posted in thoughts, writing on March 23, 2008 | 1 Comment »
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 performances? A yes or no and why would be helpful to me. Post your [...]
Posted in thoughts, writing on March 22, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m spending too much of my voluble life thinqing about the duo ditty by 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; NOT analagously. Yet, analogies are traditionally connected [...]
Posted in thoughts, writing on March 18, 2008 | No Comments »
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 three days a month instead of selling French fries 26 days a month for the same hourly wage equivalent are NOT substitute teachers. We are “guest teachers.” Her [...]
Posted in arts, thoughts on March 15, 2008 | No Comments »
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 annual anthology. This yearI was asked for the second time to [...]
Posted in thoughts, writing on March 13, 2008 | No Comments »
I taught Latin today.
And I shared some Vachel Lindsay with Fifth Hour because they merited 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, if they will allow themselves success by tolerable, if [...]
