Author: Herb
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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…
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Giving Up For The Night
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It’s late and I’m tired so I will see you all tomorrow. I would like to thank you all for your kind indulgence. Be back tomorrow.
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Dave Gets What He Deserves
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Here’s a new story. I won’t give you the prompt until the end. Dave Gets What He Deserves When a day and a half went by and she hadn’t gotten a call, she started to worry. Al always called her. Always, as in, all the time. They were best of…
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Breaking A Run
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Dear Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, and Foundlings, I had been doing so well for the last 30 days and now, just when it looks like I should be working on the start of my second month of entries, lo and behold, it’s 11:30 at night and I can’t think of…
