Reading – The Haps With Herb

January 19, 2021

Herb

Horrors! I Almost Forgot Whose Birthday It Is Today!

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22264 – 781: Here’s the haps: A lot of long-time followers and some others will know that I love to read. I have a varied, sometimes eclectic…

Reading13 Comments

October 29, 2020

Herb

Not Feeling Particularly Clever Tonight so There Will Be No Title

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22182 – 752: Dear Fans, Friends, Fiends, Foes, Foundlings, Frogs, Foundling Frogs, Freaks, and Flakes, Here's the haps: The last few days at work have been really…

Blogging, Reading16 Comments

October 20, 2020

Herb

Tag Me Tuesday – Jasmine Rose At Bookworm Asks:

Herb’s Blog, Herbdate 22173 – 743: Regular readers know by now how I feel about most of the "awards" that are given around the internet. Not a big fan at…

Awards, Reading, Tag-Me Tuesday18 Comments

April 23, 2020

Herb

Happy Birthday Billy S

Word of the day · Todaybardolatry[bärˈdälətrē]NOUNhumorousexcessive admiration of Shakespeare. Forsooth! Canst one tell the day? The time? Of a truth, today is "Talk Like Shakespeare Day" and if thou wouldst…

English or Language, My Life, Reading, Writing8 Comments

April 8, 2020

Herb

Children’s Classics?

As I sat reading The Cat in the Hat Comes Back to the grandson who lives here I realized that this Cat person is really nothing more than a vandal.…

Rantings, Reading10 Comments

April 7, 2020

Herb

A Note About Writing

I was over at The Dumbest Blog Ever (which seems to me to be increasingly misnamed) and read a three-part western story he had written called Shooter and the Kid.…

Reading16 Comments

March 31, 2020

Herb

Tag-Me Tuesday: The Perfect Book Tag

Well, the Dumbest Blogger at The Dumbest Blog Ever has tagged me with this but unlike the many "awards" out there, this one is just questions about the subject at…

Blogging, Memes, Reading, Tag-Me Tuesday10 Comments

March 15, 2020

Herb

Beware The Ides Of March

I have been reading the Dumbest Blog Ever by Dumbestblogger. Sometimes he writes something that is intelligent and makes sense and puts himself in danger of losing his title. One…

Humor, Reading1 Comment

March 10, 2020

Herb

Common Sense About Covid19 and A New Setting For The Blog

I was visiting Erratic Engineeress today and found a really terrific and in-depth article about how we all need to behave rationally in the face of this virus. It is…

Blogging, My Friends, My Life, Reading13 Comments

January 9, 2020

Herb

Readable Books

As I said the other day, the most popular pages on herbthiel.com are the pages I made about the order to read Louis L'Amour's books about the Chantry, Sackett, and…

Beliefs, Louis L'Amour, Poetry, Reading8 Comments

January 7, 2020

Herb

Popular Stuff Here

Even though I have written about a wide variety of controversial and potentially controversial subjects, the posts that elicit more comments than any others are the ones about Louis L'Amour…

Coffee, Humor, Louis L'Amour10 Comments

September 14, 2019

Herb

How To Act

Still rebuilding but I also have to maintain my (25 days, so far) streak! Go me! The Good Book, the real one, the Bible, is full of all kinds of…

Beliefs, Church Life, Reading, Sunday School2 Comments