Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021 – The Haps With Herb

April 30, 2021

Herb

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: Z Is For Zoological Observation Opportunity

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22365 – 829: Here’s the haps: Colorado is home to very diverse flora and fauna and even though I have lived in this same city and state for…

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April 29, 2021

Herb

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: Y Is For Young At Heart

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22364 – 828: Here’s the haps: I happened across this song by serendipity. I have heard it often enough before but just not recently. I like its upbeat,…

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April 28, 2021

Herb

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…

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April 27, 2021

Herb

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…

Blogging, Blogging A - Z Challenge 2021, Humor, My Family, My Friends, My Life, Writing27 Comments

April 26, 2021

Herb

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…

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April 24, 2021

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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…

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April 23, 2021

Herb

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…

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April 22, 2021

Herb

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…

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April 22, 2021

Herb

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…

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April 20, 2021

Herb

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: Q Is For Quotations

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22355 – 819: Here’s the haps: Many of you read this blog on the WordPress reader and never visit the actual blog itself. That's cool, but I have…

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April 19, 2021

Herb

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: P Is For Personality Cults

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22354 – 818: Here’s the haps: As many of you are aware, there are certain authors I really, really like. I mean really. There are other authors I…

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April 17, 2021

Herb

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: O Is For Onomatopoeia (Oh Brother!)

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22352 – 817: Here’s the haps: Order of operations, octopus, orange, orangutan, onomatopoeia, outside, okay, omniscient, omnipotent, omnipresent, origami, original, opulent, octagon, Oh bother, Ottowa, Oconomowoc, oh brother,…

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