Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22151 – 723: The other night Colin McQueen of the blog Getting On paid me a very high compliment indeed, when he said, “…Loved the poem. If I spoke with an American accent, I would hear myself talking.” Well, I took it as a compliment, anyway. He is quickly turning out to […] Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22150 – 722: Thanks to the scheduling feature in WordPress I am able to set this to go at about the time I have been posting. During my training period my posts may be short, like this one or I may wind up missing one or two. I’m going to see, though. […] Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22149 – 721: Sometimes when it’s getting late or I don’t have any inspiration, or like the guy in the cartoon above my muse just isn’t working, I go traipsing through the archives and files trying to find something I’d like to present to you, Gentle Reader. My first few weeks on […] Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22148 – 720: I sat down and wrote this and I feel pretty good about it. I am highly honored to know that there are, in my very audience, at least two actively working school teachers, one of who is an English teacher. Along with them is an English major. This makes […] 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 wide array of patterns you […] Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22146 – 718: You may recall the post I wrote about the Communist Chinese using the Uighur Muslims as slave labor making name brand products. That post is here. In that post, I told you about a bill by Sen Hawley (D-MO) which is listed in the above title. I wrote to […] Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22145 – 717: When I started writing these award winning Wednesdays what I really wanted to do was recognize blogs that I just really like. The problem that I keep running into is there are so many cool blogs and nice people out there. I made it up as sort of a […] 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 no hours a week. So, […] 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 on the backside of the […] September 2020 – The Haps With Herb