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    VISITING ITALY IN SPIRIT: ‘The Key To My Grandfather’s House’

    Take a trip to Italy in spirt and in solidarity during this time of global pandemic and lockdown. What unites us is that we are all immigrants of one kind or another. Here is one family's tale out of Calabria. What's yours?

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    HERE COMES the TSUNAMI: Getting Ready for Loss in a Pandemic

    A huge wave of dying and grief is headed our way from the Covid-19 pandemic. And for that we must be prepared to share the burden—and share the joy, even—of coming together even as things fall apart.

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  • Essays,  Photo Essay

    Nature’s Not Sheltering in Place

    t looks like the violets have returned from wherever violets over-winter. They are small, but distinctive. Kind of like the Pekinese of the front yard. Meanwhile, out on the deck the cardinals are just as prevalent as the violets. Flitting about like there's no tomorrow. Maybe for us. Not for them, it looks like.

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  • Essays,  Video

    “SKATEBOARD MAN”: Bruising Tale of Determination Caught on Video

    Take a few lessons from Skateboard Man. Not quite so much about how to skateboard. But about how to be determined! To skateboard through life. It's tough out there downtown.

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  • Essays,  Video

    The Joy of Little Things and Carrots, too

    If we cannot feel joy in daily pandemic life at the moment, perhaps we can find some teensy joys in our shut-down experiences. as daily human interaction telescopes down to our living room couch. A contagion meditation on carrot videos, Falstaff and a 'furiouser and furiouser' ruling regime

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    DEAR DOUG REYNOLDS

    We all let out a sigh of relief in the building when HD Media bought the Charleston Gazette-Mail. A West Virginia guy with deep pockets, if a middle-of-the-road, non-fire-breathing dragon sort. But still! A sort-of, quasi-liberal new owner, for one of America’s renowned, way-liberal, fire-breathing, storied small newspapers. But... did we get that wrong?

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  • Essays,  Memoir

    What Have You Done With All the Jerks?

    What do you do when people act in a totally, unexpected, strange, unnerving manner in an age when civility is in the ER hooked up to an IV?

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    The night the house came crashing down around me

    A portrait of the artist as a skinny kid attempting the impossible task of fixing the most important relationship in his life up to that point. While standing there in his pajama bottoms and t-shirt as the house began to shake.

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Welcome to the portfolio site of The StoryIsTheThing, a multimedia craft production shop based in West Virginia. The site features essays, photo-essays, short & long-form video, music , poetry & more. The site is a production of writer, editor & multimedia producer Douglas John Imbrogno. Our companion site is WestVirginiaVille.com REACH ME via the Contact page or email: douglasjohnmartin AT icloud.com

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