Category: Writing
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Say Again?
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Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22089-659: Repeat That Over Again Hello. Hi there. I’m from the Bureau of the Repetitive Redundancies Department. Come to regale you with a tale and tell you a story. Initially from the beginning, we determined the absolute essential necessity to take care of our elderly senior citizens.…
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Mudgeonly Monday – Chili How Dad Likes It
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Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22088-658: I have had a lot of posts lately that I really liked. I felt good about them. Then comes a time like now and I just am not feeling it. No offense to you guys, I have got one of the brightest and most intelligent audiences…
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Prompted
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“Mooooommmm…Dad’s at it again!” She had always hated this old, broken-down house in this nasty neighborhood, never knowing when a shot from a drive-by shooting might accidentally go through a wall or a window, hurting or killing one of the children. One of her neighbors had dug a bullet out…
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Take It From The Top – Cleaning My Desk – finale
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Back in October of 2004 I was in a quandary about a couple of things. I had been writing all my life, especially after my tenth grade English teacher, Mrs. Sonja Maas, encouraged me and made me think I could offer something to the world. I wrote and still write…
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Throw-It-Back Thursday – Responding to 1871
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No, not the year, but rather a story that was posted on the award-winning blog, Weave A Web. He has a great blog full of stories, many of which have twisty, O. Henry-esque, endings. That is, if O. Henry had written for the dark side. But he doesn’t always murder…
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Curmudgeonly Monday
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It is one thing to see and visit with and make goo-goo eyes at your 9-month-old grandson when his mom is healthy and you can hand him back at those times when, as the patriarch of the great Thiel tribe, you suddenly find something else that needs doing and can…
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Distract…What Was That?
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I read Colin McQueen’s post today about the distractions he faces while writing, called, The Way It Is. His diversions resonated with me because I find myself easily distracted, as well. It depends on what time of the day it is. Early morning or late at night it is easier…
