Over the years I’ve been fortunate to find online publication for stories, poems and photographs with the wonderfully diverse and...

I’m warm at home in Bon Air today, typing this with a cup of coffee on my table and my pup Buddy sleeping at my feet. Quite cozy. And I...

Boy, this winter’s getting rough. Just learned that another old friend and great soul has passed, the almost famous writer Terry Bisson,...

This is my dad at age 23 on the Franco-German border in Alsace, hours away from what would become 150 continuous days of battle in the...

Re the recent malignant re-writing of the Florida history texts, thought I’d share this clarifying photo from the 2020 protests here in...

Just learned that my story collection Last Rites has been made available to all the public libraries in Virginia through their Indie...

My 2020 poetry collection Yearnful Raves, which unfortunately came out just as covid hit, is now on sale at Amazon for 50% off (just...

Just a quick announcement this morning in thanks to the tireless and intrepid editors at the online multi-media journal Mad Swirl. ...

For your Summer reading pleasure, hope you’ll consider books from my growing NeXTeXT collection, all listed on this website. With last...

The last time I saw my friend Sarah Knorr was a month before covid shut everything down. We met at my favorite bakery Sub Rosa on Church...

Available in paperback (https://amzn.to/36KG0Li) or e-book formats (https://amzn.to/2VGPmBF). #autobiography #localhistory #memoir

Thanks Book People, Richmond, VA for stocking my debut poetry collection and for advertising it on your site, just in time for National...

One way I’ve been spending my Covid-19 home confinement, building little readings of poems from my new collection Yearnful Raves...

When I started work on my debut novel The Coal Tower (https://amzn.to/2HcegCg) ten years ago (there were previous novels, of course,...

Visiting the Outer Banks this weekend to hang out with son Nick, who’s ocean rescue life-guarding for Nags Head again this summer, and...

#bookreading #booksigning

Book People Book Shop at 536 Granite Avenue in Richmond, VA’s West End is hosting my first ever book signing (and reading) on Saturday...

The creative folks at Mad Swirl have posted a new poem of mine, and with it they’ve set up a display page just for other work I’ve sent...

https://amzn.to/2EdeE2a Jacket Copy: Ernest Hemingway wrote, “All stories…end in death.” With ringing lyricism, cinematic detail, and wry...

So happy to announce the launch of my novel The Coal Tower, available now on Amazon in paperback or Kindle versions (you can request the...