Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021 – The Haps With Herb

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

April 30, 2021 Herb 21

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 over thirty years I still get a chance to be surprised every Continue Reading[...]

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

April 29, 2021 Herb 19

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, positive message and am feeling pretty good, albeit tired, today so it Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: X‽

April 28, 2021 Herb 38

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 Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: W Is For Writing A Story Together

April 27, 2021 Herb 27

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 Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: V Is For The Villanelle Of The Villainous Villain L

April 26, 2021 Herb 22

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 Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: U Is For The Ubiquity Of Uniquity

April 24, 2021 Herb 15

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 Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: T Is For Talk Like Shakespeare Day

April 23, 2021 Herb 33

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 Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: S Is For SHM-Reduplication

April 22, 2021 Herb 18

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 Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: R Is For Ralph Reckoner

April 22, 2021 Herb 19

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 Continue Reading[...]

Blogging A – Z Challenge 2021: Q Is For Quotations

April 20, 2021 Herb 28

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 a couple of things on the main page of the blog that Continue Reading[...]

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

April 19, 2021 Herb 19

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 really like and still many more that I just like. There are Continue Reading[...]

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

April 17, 2021 Herb 33

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, oh boy, oy vey iz mir! Today’s letter, if you have been Continue Reading[...]