by jamesbondly | Apr 26, 2022 | About Life, About Photography, Storytelling-Tall Tales
Photography is Easy God did all the hard work I enjoy all genres of photography, but my preference is landscape and wildlife. Immersing myself in nature is soul-healing. My restless urge to seek beauty is a holy calling, holy in aim, means, and end. Photography can...
by jamesbondly | Feb 21, 2022 | About Life, About Writing, Storytelling-Tall Tales
Teaching an Old Dog New Tricks The Journey to Humility Begins I can hear the weather moaning outside; our deck cracks, moans, and groans as it contracts; I throw a log into the stove and pour a steaming cup of coffee; at five in the morning, the darkness hides the...
by jamesbondly | Dec 18, 2021 | About Life, About Photography, Storytelling-Tall Tales
Between The Forceps And The Stone I plagiarize this title from a Joni Mitchell album I love and a reminder from an article I just read about protecting children. “I know no one’s going to show me everything. We all come and go unknown. Each is so deep...
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 ~...
