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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: X‽
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22363 – 827: Here’s the haps: I couldn’t think of anything for the letter “X.” Well, okay, there is the old standby that I learned when I learned the alphabet, “X is for xylophone.” But that seemed a bit trite…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: W Is For Writing A Story Together
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…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: V Is For The Villanelle Of The Villainous Villain L
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…
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My Internet is Down
No Herbdate Here’s the haps: My Internet has been down off and on all day so some of the interesting conversations I have been having with you all are interrupted. Is this a First World problem or what?
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: U Is For The Ubiquity Of Uniquity
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22359 – 823: Here’s the haps: So everybody wants to be considered a unique individual just like everybody else. The attitude is everywhere. It is most prevalent among younger teenagers but it’s a desire that most people have in one…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: T Is For Talk Like Shakespeare Day
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22358 – 822: Here’s the haps: I usually say something about Shakespeare on the twenty-third of April every year. It is, as best as anybody can tell, the day he was both born and died, 1564 – 1616. This year…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: S Is For SHM-Reduplication
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22357 – 821: Here’s the haps: Aah, haps shmaps. Reduplication shmeduplication. So what? Who cares? I originally got interested in this because I was at someone’s blog and saw that an apostrophe appeared misplaced, although after re-reading the piece I…
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Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: R Is For Ralph Reckoner
Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22356 – 820: Here’s the haps: He lived in the wildest part of the wilderness of the forest in an ancient stone hut by choice. No trail led to it, it was in a wild, wooded place. There were two…
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