
Welcome to the literary wing in my Muses' mansions. Poems, "sorta memoirs" plumbing the art of fictional non-fiction, exploratory multimedia & valentines to the Great Mystery. | "There's an invisible world out there & we're living in it." ~ Jim Harrison
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EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a final heads up to subscribers of this publication that I will no longer be updating TheStoryIsTheThing.substack.com, effective with this guest post below from my main site at WestVirginiaVille.substack.com. I am foc...
GREETINGS and a HEADS UP. In order to focus my many wayward digital publishing efforts, I will henceforth be focusing my writing, photography, moving imagery, commentary and guest editing work at: westvirginiaville.substack.com. Hence and h...
SKELETAL CLASS’ | University of Charleston, Charleston WV | march2025 | TheSTORYistheTHING.substack.com photo...
Skeletons to the left of you
Skeletons to the right.
Skeletons drive your car to work
& then go dancing in the ni...
‘YOU’VE GOT MAIL’ | Main Street, St. Albans, West Virginia | theSTORYistheTHING.com photo | Winter2025
As someone with a small me...
EDITOR’S NOTE: In almost 40 years of newspaper feature writing I was blessed to interview some notable writers and poets, including Allen Ginsberg, Gary Snyder, and Lawrence Ferlinghetti. I want to re-share my Ferlinghetti piece sinc...
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Writer, editor, video crafter & documentarian, sometimes poet, itinerant musician & cat herder, just trying to keep his cigar lit. Publications include WestVirginiaVille; ThroughtheTrees (his folk-chamber ensemble band site); and TheHartoftheMatter.
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