Bonus Post – Rapunzel

August 4, 2020 Herb 10
Herb’s blog, Herbdate 22096-667:Originally written and/or posted previously elsewhere on Herbdate: 17903 aka 02/10/2009: I was over at Beej’s Blisteringly Brilliant Blog (Possibly the most alliteratively named blog on the Internet.) http://brilliancewithbeej.blogspot.com/  yesterday and she was talking about how she and an Continue Reading[...]

Say Again?

July 28, 2020 Herb 10
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 Continue Reading[...]

Prompted

July 20, 2020 Herb 5
“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 Continue Reading[...]

Curmudgeonly Monday

June 29, 2020 Herb 9
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 Continue Reading[...]

Distract…What Was That?

June 23, 2020 Herb 10
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 Continue Reading[...]

A Dark Epiphany

June 4, 2020 Herb 8
“This must be Thursday. I never could get the hang of Thursdays.” Arthur Dent “If I ever meet myself, I’ll hit myself so hard I won’t know what’s hit me.” Zaphod Beeblebrox My whole idea of “Throw It Back Thursday” was that Continue Reading[...]

A Milestone For Me

June 3, 2020 Herb 26
Back in August I made a commitment to followers of this blog that I was going to write in this blog every single day for as long as I could. That was on August 9, 2019. Today marks the 300th day after Continue Reading[...]