Visit to Vachel Lindsay’s House on a Snowy Friday

On the way to work about 11:15 a on a chilly Friday the 13th, driving streets that were still patchy with snow remaining from yesterday’s icy apocalypse, I stopped at Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site at 603 S. Fifth Street in Springfield to deliver a special edition of my latest book, Confluence of Legends [...]

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The Trouble With Heat

I thought my life would improve after re-connecting my firnace and enjoying circulating warm air, but I was mistaken. In the two weeks since permitting 65 degrees of warmth in the house, turned to 55 at bedtime and kept that way until returning from evening overtime at AeroKnow Museum, I have been coming home sooner, [...]

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I Smile Into the Sunshine

For the past month or so, I’ve adopted a new habit of smiling into the sunshine when I’ve driving, especially before 5 pm. I’m doing this because of a minor epiphany experienced some weeks ago: when I see smiling, I want to smile back. I nearly always do, especially if she’s good-looking and including an occasional [...]

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older poem for new friends: I Am a Creative

I Am a Creative by Job Conger written 11:45 pm, February 18, 2009 – Happy the soul who brandishes a pen, Jousting with the world like horseback-knightly men, Mightier than sword, with lyric acumen. I am a creative writata. – Some engage the craft by the dawn’s early light; Others under candle glow round midnight. [...]

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new poem: Here’s to the Spirit

Here’s to the Spirit by Job Conger written  5:30 pm, December 21, 2005 – (chorus) Here’s to the spirit of hope in our hearts – The spirit, the ghost or the flame – That shows you the sun with the gift of a smile Regardless of credo or name. In the darkness of winter, a [...]

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