Category: Writing
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Poe’s Death Day: OCT 7, 1849, What Happened?
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22525 – 859 Here’s the haps: January 19, 1809 – Oct 7, 1849, 40 years old. He wrote approximately seventy stories, sixty-nine poems and I don’t know how many non-fiction articles about writing and literary criticism. Many of you know that I am something like a fan of…
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Throw It Back Thursday on Tuesday – The Country and Western Celery Song
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22460 – 852: Here’s the haps: I was over at the incorrectly named Dumbest Blog Ever and read with increasing sadness how the DumbestBlogger was afraid he wouldn’t make it as a country musician because the only sponsor he could find was the Celery Growers Union and he…
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Throw It Back Thursday On Saturday Night and A Bit Of Seriousity
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22450 – 850: Here’s the haps: Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. But it’s a word now. I mean, after all, it’s on the Internet now so it has to be real. I was over at Mr. Ohh!’s Sideways View and read his thoughts on, among other things, supermarket…
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Art Vegan And The Campanologists Part 2 – Throw It Back Thursday On Friday
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22386 – 837: Here’s the haps: (You can read part 1 here if you haven’t yet.) The man continued his story for Art. “The very next day another, very familiar-looking man came up. ‘I’ve come to take my brother’s place.’” “I really didn’t know what to say. ‘It…
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Art Vegan And The Campanologists Part 1 – Throw It Back Thursday
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22385 – 836: Here’s the haps: Art Vegan enjoyed working as a private investigator, even though there were occasional cases that he couldn’t solve, he did very well for himself. He only took the ones that intrigued him so he seldom became bored. He was looking over the…
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I’ll Be Around When I Can For The Next Week-ish And Here’s Why
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22367 – 830: Here’s the haps: Our son-in-law’s sister needed him and my daughter to come to help her as soon as possible. She is a young woman and her young (in his twenties) husband passed away. With three small children, she has a lot of needs. He…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: W Is For Writing A Story Together
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22362 – 826: Here’s the haps: On our tribal group text, we have a person who posts that day’s national holidays (most of which are real although some are made up by the calendar company so they can sell more calendars), this day in history, birthdays, and a…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: V Is For The Villanelle Of The Villainous Villain L
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Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22361 – 825: Here’s the haps: My dear fans, friends, fiends, foes, foundlings, frolicking freaks, and other nice assorted people, I went looking back to find the post where I tried my hand at writing a poem in the villanelle form. Some of you have been with me…
