Category: My Life
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Curmudgeonly Monday – Columbus Day, and Indigenous Peoples Day, and Cultural Appropriation
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22165 – 735: Terminology comes and goes but in all generations there are derogatory terms that are insulting and should not ever be used. Growing up in the Sixties and being one of the few white kids attending a predominantly black school there were terms and phrases…
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The Aliens Who Live In Our Walls
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22162 – 732: A blog I follow regularly is the award-winning Weave A Web, by Bruce. I’ve mentioned him here before and given him an award. His writing may not appeal to everyone in my audience but then sometimes neither does mine. This week he has been…
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Not Too Much Tonight
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22160 – 730: Sorry, not too much tonight. Going to try working on making sure the comments work from the Reader as they’re supposed to. I never like to rush through Award Winning Wednesday and at the moment I am too drained physically and mentally to try…
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The Much Promised, Highly Vaunted Villanelle – I Did It And It Was Okay – Also A Tiny Bit About An Old DOS Game I Enjoyed
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22148 – 720: I sat down and wrote this and I feel pretty good about it. I am highly honored to know that there are, in my very audience, at least two actively working school teachers, one of who is an English teacher. Along with them is…
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This Is Not The Villanelle I Promised You – But It Is A Poem With An Introduction That Turned Into A Post
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22147 – 719: I think I have a structure for the newer poem lined out but it’s not even close to done yet. But here’s a piece from before I started blogging. One of the things I enjoy about and first attracted me to poetry was the…
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Hi-Ho, Hi-Ho It’s Back To Work I Go
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22144 – 716: Some of you may recall that I had started job hunting a couple of months ago. I have been increasingly disappointed by the lack of hours the office supply store was giving me, down to a few hours one day a week and sometimes…
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A Gate Of A Fence or Offense
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22143 – 715: A couple days ago I posted the meme about a fence and right after that, we had a real incident about a fence. Our neighborhood is at the top of a hill and ours was one of the first houses built back in 1959…
