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Category: Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021:  S Is For SHM-Reduplication

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: S Is For SHM-Reduplication

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22357 – 821: Here’s the haps: Aah, haps shmaps. Reduplication shmeduplication. So what? Who cares? I originally got interested in this because I was at someone’s blog and saw that an apostrophe appeared misplaced, although after re-reading the piece I realized it was my brain that had been…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: R Is For Ralph Reckoner

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: R Is For Ralph Reckoner

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22356 – 820: Here’s the haps: He lived in the wildest part of the wilderness of the forest in an ancient stone hut by choice. No trail led to it, it was in a wild, wooded place. There were two forest rangers that were the closest thing to…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: Q Is For Quotations

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: Q Is For Quotations

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22355 – 819: Here’s the haps: Many of you read this blog on the WordPress reader and never visit the actual blog itself. That’s cool, but I have a couple of things on the main page of the blog that I am proud of and/or really like. One…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: P Is For Personality Cults

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: P Is For Personality Cults

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22354 – 818: Here’s the haps: As many of you are aware, there are certain authors I really, really like. I mean really. There are other authors I really like and still many more that I just like. There are some I don’t like. Celebrities, I think, are…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: O Is For Onomatopoeia (Oh Brother!)

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: O Is For Onomatopoeia (Oh Brother!)

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22352 – 817: Here’s the haps: Order of operations, octopus, orange, orangutan, onomatopoeia, outside, okay, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, origami, original, opulent, octagon, Oh bother, Ottowa, Oconomowoc, oh brother, oh boy, oy vey iz mir! Today’s letter, if you have been on track the whole month so far (As…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: N Is For Neighbors Nibbling

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: N Is For Neighbors Nibbling

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22351 – 816: Here’s the haps: You may recall, especially if you’ve been around here long enough, that for being a suburb we have a lot of wildlife in our area. We have been visited in our neighborhood (either on our property or on our street within a…

  • Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: M Is For Managing And Moving Media And Memes Fit For Throw-It-Back Thursday

    Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: M Is For Managing And Moving Media And Memes Fit For Throw-It-Back Thursday

    Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22350 – 815: Here’s the haps: Being self-hosted and using the WordPress software as my blogging platform I am not constrained by the limitations WP free users or even people on WordPress Hosting are. I am stating this based on what I have been told by others. Anyway,…

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