Category: Blogging
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: P is for Past Places or From Melancholy to Sublime
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22716 – 966 Here’s the haps: Award-Winning blogger, Bruce Goldman over at Weave A Web did a post the other day that captured my imagination. His blog contains many stories that have caused me to call him “The O. Henry of the Dark Side” and posts about his…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: O is for “Open ‘Er Up and Give ‘Er”
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22715 – 965 Here’s the haps: On those occasions when my teenage uncle would take us boys for a ride in his 1969 Olds 442 we knew how much he loved to show off its impressive power and speed. With no seatbelts on we would lean over the…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: N is for No Tail Light Or Nothing Is New Especially Not This Post
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22714 – 964 Here’s the haps: An oldy from about 10 years ago. A sad but untrue tale of unpaid attention to detail. “How long have you been driving without a tail light?” asked the policeman after pulling over a motorist. The driver jumped out, ran to the…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: M is for My Adventures or Do I Give A Two-Year-Old A Hammer When He Asks For One?
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22713 – 963 Here’s the haps: I had the day off today because I will be working tomorrow and spent it with half of my grandchildren. Two teenagers who were neither sullen nor surly, a nine-month-old, a five-month-old, and a two-year-old. TNT has no children of her own…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: L is for Languishing Licorice Lollipops Lurking in the Lagoon and International Moment of Laughter Day
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22712 – 962 Here’s the haps: My system is very sensitive to pills and medicines so when I take anything I get foggy and crabby and sleepy. I have osteoarthritis in my thumbs, degenerative discs in my neck, a bum knee, a bad hip, etc. Most of the…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: K is for Killer Bunnies
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22711 – 961 Here’s the haps: No, this is not a take-off of the Monty Python scene with the holy hand grenade but a bit of bizarre history I found. Before the invention of the printing press, scribes copied out books and manuscripts and such by hand and…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2022: J is for Jesus’ Disciples
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22710 – 960 Here’s the haps: There is a book called Foxe’s Book of Martyrs which details many of the persecutions and tortures suffered by the Christians of the early church. The link above is to a Project Gutenberg free copy and it’s available in HTML, Epub, Kindle,…
