Category: My Life
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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…
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The Art Of The Apothecary
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22142 – 714: When I got that first job at the drugstore back in 1974 (see the entry “Changed”), I learned a lot. I don’t know how much I knew I was learning at the time, but I think back and a few things stand out. I…
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Changed or Pardon Me, Do You Have Two Tens For A Five?
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22142 – 714: This has been posted by me a couple of different times but the last time was 11 years ago, I think. The events took place in the summer of ’06 I believe. I entered the work force in 1974 when I was 14, as…
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Who’s To Blame For Herb’s Poetry Habit
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22138 – 709: As you may or may not recall I have at times fancied myself something of a poet. I think some of my stuff is okay while some of it is mind-rotted drivel of the lowest sort. And some in between. I have read books…
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100 hours or 1,000 hours – A Concept That Has Been Bothering Me
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22131 – 702: Many of you may remember that this whole streak of making at least one post per day, even if it is just one sentence, started with a blog post I read by a marketing maven named Seth Godin. He had been blogging for 11…
