Holidays – holidaze

More Favorite Things

December 23, 2019 Herb 1
This piece was often sent around in e-mails with a note saying that Julie Andrews sang it on her 69th birthday at an AARP function. That is not true. Unfortunately, in 1997, she had a surgery to remove a non-cancerous polyp from Continue Reading[...]

Present, Gift Cards or Cash?

December 4, 2019 Herb 1
As many of you may know, I am a fan of Miss Manners’ column and I read her column almost every day. I usually like how she answers people, gently where it needs it but snarky where snark is called for. Really, Continue Reading[...]

GiveThanksing Day Memories

November 28, 2019 Herb 6
Having had a big houseful of people here today made it hard to find time for writing but was also inspiring for finishing this entry. I read the Thanksgiving poem over at Life Lessons From Around the Dinner Table and had a Continue Reading[...]

Just Wait

October 9, 2018 Herb 4
The retail world is crazy and they have taken a time of wonder and beauty and turned it into something crass and vulgar.  Or at least they have tried.  No matter how much Mad Ave, Hollyweird and the rest of the entertainment Continue Reading[...]

ITLAPD

September 19, 2018 Herb 4
Aarrrrrggggghhhhh!  It be International Talk Like A Pirate Day this day, me hearties!  So, abandon ship and surrender to yer pirate-y lingo.  If ye be a likely lad or lass but need help understandin’ any of it, sure and ya kin go Continue Reading[...]
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Grand Baby News

December 15, 2015 Herb 2
Dear Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes and Family, Well, this has been an eventful month so far.  I have a new grandbaby, number five for those of you keeping score at home, named Levi and almost lost both him and his mom, my Continue Reading[...]
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The Manitou Springs Adventure

June 8, 2015 Herb 0
Greetings, Salutations and Hi There to all of my dear fans, friends, fiends, foes and relatives, Well, we had a nice time celebrating our 35th wedding anniversary. Some years we have gone up to Cripple Creek and stayed at a B&B up Continue Reading[...]
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The Thirty-Five Year Adventure

June 5, 2015 Herb 6
Greetings, Salutations and Hi There to all of my dear fans, friends, fiends, foes and relatives, In the humid summer heat of a Wisconsin summer in early July, 1979, a newly-turned-eighteen year old young man was chatting up a sixteen year old Continue Reading[...]
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Remember

May 29, 2006 Herb 2
It started out as “Decoration Day” on May 30, not “The last Monday in May.” It was a day when you went to the grave of a loved one who had fallen in battle. You went to the cemetery and saw the Continue Reading[...]