by jamesbondly | Dec 8, 2021 | About Life, Storytelling-Tall Tales
CAMP GRANADA “Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda, here I am at camp Granada;” Allan Sherman released that song in 1963, two years after my incarceration at Camp Dominic Savio. My mother meant well and was happy to get me out of her hair for two weeks; she had no...
by jamesbondly | Nov 2, 2021 | About Life, Storytelling-Tall Tales
GUARDIANS OF UNION STATION A Short Story Chapter one—MEETING GOLIATH: I stood safely tucked into a corner, in a calm eddy, away from the flow of people. I have the “Aces and Eights” phobia, and I never leave my back exposed to a surprise; I always face the...
by jamesbondly | Oct 29, 2021 | About Life, About Writing, Storytelling-Tall Tales
REAL-LIFE MONOLOGS Autobiographical Storytelling Want to write a good story? Write about what you don’t want others to know about you. Want to write a great story? Write about what you don’t want to know about yourself. Mark W. Travis Write what you know ~...
by jamesbondly | Oct 24, 2021 | About Life, Storytelling-Tall Tales
STORIES FROM THE DECK Tales read in five minutes James Joyce once remarked: “He [Hemingway] has reduced the veil between literature and life, which is what every writer strives to do. Have you read ‘A Clean Well-Lighted Place’?…It is masterly....
by jamesbondly | Oct 23, 2021 | About Life, Storytelling-Tall Tales, Uncategorized
THE HILLBILLY HELLO Carry each other’s burdens, and in this way, you will fulfill the law of Christ. ~ Galatians 6:2 When I worked at the Airport in those days, the terminal was tiny with one airline counter and a bar that could support a dozen sloshy souls. The...
by jamesbondly | Oct 21, 2021 | About Photography, Storytelling-Tall Tales
VIVIAN Never shared Entering the shop, the scent of memories was palatable, aromas of people, and passed lives; oddities stacked high on long lunchroom folding tables with no obvious way to navigate the random placements. Asking the proprietor, “Do you have any...
