by jamesbondly | Oct 4, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, Storytelling-Tall Tales, Travel
Nomadic Living on 80 Square Feet Lucille’s first extended trip We have resided in five States and had homes in each, and the most miniature house was nine hundred square feet. We traveled around the globe but little in our homeland, America. Sure, we have used...
by jamesbondly | Jun 19, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, Storytelling-Tall Tales
YouTube Homesteaders Homesteading without the hardship The civil war ended in 1865; Lincoln signed the Homestead Act in 1862. As the smoke cleared from the pain of seven hundred thousand dead, the rush for free land was on. So we colonized the territories, stealing...
by jamesbondly | Jun 2, 2023 | About Life, Storytelling-Tall Tales
OVERWHELMED Driven to grounding The day’s heat impressed the need for a cold iced tea and some conditioned air. I had abandoned all hope for a productive garden. The plot was three feet high in weeds. About to give up and mow it leaving the garden to the...
by jamesbondly | May 12, 2023 | About Life, About Photography, About Writing, Spiritual, Storytelling-Tall Tales
Writing about God The Disciples, Moses, Joshua, Samuel, Nathan, David, Gad, Solomon, Isaiah, the Prophets, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggai, Zechariah, Malachi, all the others of the Bible, and the...
by jamesbondly | Apr 28, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual, Storytelling-Tall Tales
A Blind Man’s Prelude To the Divided Kingdom “What’s with you lately?” I have heard that plenty lately. The seeing straw broke my back and forced me to enter the Great War that has been raging since I was a boy—the War I chose to ignore or just...
by jamesbondly | Apr 26, 2023 | About Life, Spiritual, Storytelling-Tall Tales
Living off the Land A Subsistence Way of Life The stairs were steep, and the ceiling was low. I crouched low to enter; the cellar smelled of wet dirt and sulfur from the soft coal. The small windows provided little light, not cleaned in fifty years, and thick cobweb...