Author: Herb
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Waiting For The Baby
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We have been expecting to have another grandchild for the last, oh, 6 or 7 months now and today is the day. Well, supposed to be the day. If nothing happens today they will induce her. I had understood that that was supposed to happen last night but I guess…
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The Archives Interest Me
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I suppose this sounds very self-aggrandizing and egotistical, but I really like a lot of the stuff I write and have written. I have been going back to the roots of why I started this blog in the first place, as a place to practice writing, as a way to…
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Old Cowboy Jokes
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A couple of old jokes I found while digging in the archives. A cowboy rode into town and stopped at the saloon for a drink. Unfortunately, the locals always had a habit of picking on newcomers. When he left the bar sometime later, he realized that his horse had been…
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10 Days
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In ten days I will have owned this blog in one form or another for fifteen years. What started out as a writing exercise has turned into something other over the years. It’s been a chronicle, a pulpit, a soapbox, and a doodled on notepad. I’ve written a lot of…
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Some Things I Like
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Back in the olden days of blogging, many of the blogs I would visit (many are not blogging anymore, but they used to) would have events like Silver Lining Saturday or Thankful Thursday and I really enjoyed that. I think I may take one of those up on a regular…
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A New (to me) Resource
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I was looking up “viz.”, one of those Latin phrases that people use in writing, e.g., i.e., etc. and came across a very useful reference page, Latin Terms and Abbreviations from the University of North Carolina Writing Center. I think it’s very generous of them to share this resource and…
