Ravings

Award Winning Wednesday – Petra at Erratic Engineeress

July 8, 2020 Herb 38

Again, this week’s selection was difficult to make. I read a lot of cool blogs of a wide variety of genres, none of whom need an award from me for validation and Continue Reading[…]

Bonus Post – The Other Side Of Law Enforcement

June 22, 2020 Herb 6

I read a news aggregator called Complete Colorado. It is similar in style to that of the Drudge Report but is just Colorado. I haven’t written much lately about current events but Continue Reading[…]

Art? I Don't Know Nuttin'

February 4, 2020 Herb 0

I think this is the last of the Mystery Blogger Award questions I will answer. It has been fun to use them as writing prompts and, as anyone who knows much about Continue Reading[…]

Ah, that much maligned, hated on, non-punctuation mark, the combined exclamation point and question mark, the interrobang. One of my favorite marks of punctuation, it is not accepted as standard. “What?!” You Continue Reading[…]

Caveman Barbershop

November 6, 2019 Herb 4

I had to go to the V.A. lab this morning to be experimented on have a routine blood draw. Of course, going to the V.A. clinic for anything, especially something that is Continue Reading[…]

The Ultimate Penultimate Pen

October 19, 2019 Herb 2

People who’ve known me for any length of time know that I like pens, especially fountain pens. I have been this way for a long time and in fact, Carter and I Continue Reading[…]

Some Things I Like

September 24, 2019 Herb 1

Back in the olden days of blogging, many of the blogs I would visit (many are not blogging anymore, but they used to) would have events like Silver Lining Saturday or Thankful Continue Reading[…]

Re-Re-Posted

September 1, 2019 Herb 1

I reposted this because I found that even though I had reposted it on 4/6/2015 I could not find the original anywhere. Not in any folder on any backup drive anywhere. That Continue Reading[…]

My Daughter The Teacher

August 29, 2019 Herb 2

Sometimes the way things happen and the timing of events is an interesting thing to me. I was just reading the entry from my parents’ final visit, https://blog.herbthiel.com/day-5-060706/, and my dad was Continue Reading[…]