Author: Herb
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Three Gents
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I’m with the third guy. Three elderly gents were talking about what their grandchildren might be saying about them fifty years from now. “I would like my grandchildren to say, ‘He was successful in business,’” declared the first man. “Fifty years from now,” said the second, “I want them to…
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Cows
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After reading about Beetleypete’s thoughts about walking his dog through a field of cows it brought my mind back to growing up in America’s Dairyland. We have them here in Colorado, too. They can be dangerous but a lot of times they are merely being curious which can be just…
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Arthritis?
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A man who smelled like a distillery flopped on a subway seat next to a priest. The man’s tie was stained, his face was plastered with red lipstick, and a half-empty bottle of gin was sticking out of his torn coat pocket. He opened his newspaper and began reading. After…
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Mom's Poster
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As I was strolling along through the archives, in a blogging folder from 2005, I found a file titled, “Mom’s Poster.” Neither one of us remembers the exact circumstances that caused it, but the message is pretty clear. I think it was posted on the refrigerator at the time. Tab…
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Anagrams
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Going through the archives is kind of a history lesson sometimes. This is from an email from 1999. Still a good one, though. An anagram is a word or phrase made by or rearranging the letters of another word or phrase. The following are exceptionally clever. Someone out there either…
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GiveThanksing Day Memories
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Having had a big houseful of people here today made it hard to find time for writing but was also inspiring for finishing this entry. I read the Thanksgiving poem over at Life Lessons From Around the Dinner Table and had a memory from a long time ago. It’s not…
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Working, Working
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I have an entry started, which you will see tomorrow, about some memory images of my childhood. It’s 1,100 words long so far but with working today and prepping for the holiday and it being 11:59, today you get this. Sorry.
