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		<title>FROM ITALY, WITH LOVE</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Oct 2025 00:37:31 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[What has my Italian-born father's oddball name — Dulio — have to do with one of the most smashing (literally and figuratively) battles in Roman Empire history? A lot, it turns out! Here is  a multimedia exploration of Italian history seen through the lens of a personal auto-fictional writing.]]></description>
		
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		<title>A WestVirginiaVille Heads-Up</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 21:47:19 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Here is a heads-up about keeping up with my latest writing, multimedia work and guests posts. There's a companion version of this site at the substack platform with the address of WestVirginiaVille.substack.com. I publish more frequent content there, so I encourage you to free subscribe at that address.]]></description>
		
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		<title>LOOKING OUT on AMERICA</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 14:17:26 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Mona Lisa eyes me sideways up an alley in Columbus, Ohio. I am out and about in Middle America, pondering what an itinerant iPhoneographer and small-publication essayist has to offer as America keeps going further off the rails ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>IT&#8217;S A POETRY THING: Reports from the front lines of the life of the weekend poet.</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 Aug 2025 18:16:20 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Poetry is such a welcome, utterly necessary thing because it serves as an antidote to the abuses and misuses of language. On some days in this byzantine modern life, poetry is the only thing that seems to make sense. Please allow me to share some of my own poetic work as a weekend poet. ]]></description>
		
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		<title>LIGHT SHOWS for DARK TIMES</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jul 2025 15:12:46 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[A roadtrip scrapbook in search of some light, from willowy mountains &#038; evangelical buses, to midnight abstractions &#038; Heather Hannah kicking it live at the Purple Fiddle out in the mountains.]]></description>
		
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		<title>More Posts About Buildings and Freud</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 11:59:42 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[On coping with sociopathic failures in leadership; the art of ecclesiastical architecture in West Virginia's capital; PRIDE-ful buildings in Huntington; who else to follow Mountain State-wise on substack; and our new caffeinated support fund ...]]></description>
		
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		<title>GETTING INTO CHARACTER(S)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jun 2025 14:24:18 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[The news is bad today, oh, boy. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't go hang out with pointy-eared medieval fairies while jonesing to harp music deep in the Appalachian hills at the West Virginia Renaissance Festival.]]></description>
		
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		<title>IN HIS OWN WORDS</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 14:57:01 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[Author and West Virginia native Homer Hickam gave the keynote address on June 7, 2025, at a conference of West Virginia Writers, Inc., at Cedar Lakes in Ripley, West Virginia. He offered up some funny and insightful commentary on the writing life, his books other than the one that made him famous and how he was supposed to be named 'Susie.']]></description>
		
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		<title>WORKING the WARDS &#124; Part 3</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2025 11:45:23 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA[In the final day of diaries about working the back wards at Huntington State Hospital in 1983 for nearly three months, an aide tells me the hospital population is far below what it was about a decade ago when more than 1,000 patients lived on The Hill, as patients and staff call the hospital. “There’s a low patient population here. But they’re a mess—the patients.” ]]></description>
		
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		<title>WORKING the WARDS &#124; Part 2</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 03 Jun 2025 13:26:09 +0000</pubDate>
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					<description><![CDATA['I take two patients, Frank and Elton, to the canteen, where everyone seems to be smoking, including Frank who bums a cigarette in addition to the one he smokes. He smokes two-handed, resting one while drawing upon the other. Smoke seems to powder the air of any room at the hospital where two or more patients gather. It seems as if there is one continuously lit cigarette at Huntington State Hospital. When it burns down, another is lit off its butt and then another and another, like a daisy chain …’ ]]></description>
		
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