Nobody Gets It Like They Want It To Be

Life Imitates Art

by bdunn on January 25, 2013

in Nobody Gets It Like They Want It To Be, Verbatim

Perusing Craig’s List merely for the purpose of obtaining goods and services to meet your needs is somewhat akin to bringing home the Russian classics to keep the paperwork from blowing around on your desk. Really, both are meant to be savored, yes? Today, for instance: Lovely sofa and love seat – $300 (Inner Loop) [...]

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We’re Only Here Temporarily

by bdunn on October 12, 2012

in Corporate, Health Care, Nobody Gets It Like They Want It To Be, Politics, Poverty

Our monthly bill for health insurance is almost to the dollar the same as our *two* mortgages, on our Richmond home and the Polka Farm. “Obamacare” has not lowered the cost of health insurance for us, and the Republicans’ plans for letting insurance companies dump sick people from their roles like in the good old [...]

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When It’s Least Expected, You’re Elected

by bdunn on August 19, 2012

in Nobody Gets It Like They Want It To Be

The big used cargo van we bought a few weeks ago had been faithfully hauling furniture and tools out to the farm and, once there, hauling building materials and tools and wood from one part of the farm to another, most recently patio stone for an almost-instant patio we built around two round concrete picnic [...]

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Home If They Say So

by bdunn on October 28, 2011

in Government, Nobody Gets It Like They Want It To Be

After some persistence, I finally received Official Word the other day that our city, county and federal governments have joined forces in an effort that will, in a couple of months, cause most of the value of the One Acre Ranch to vanish as if by magic. There is a long version of this story, [...]

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About That Rain You Ordered

by bdunn on September 1, 2011

in Be Afraid, Nature, Nobody Gets It Like They Want It To Be

We’ve all been praying, here at home and at church, too, for some rain to put out the vantage of outer space that the Big Guy is preparing to answer our prayers in Some Way. While my hope is for a three-day session under something akin to a planet-sized grocery store produce watering system, it [...]

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