Ted Kalvitis

2 weeks ago | hampshirereview.com | Ted Kalvitis |Far Muse

These hills and hollows are full of smart people — they’re sensible and practical minded, too. Most are more comfortable chatting in the garden, under the hood of an old pickup, over a parts counter or a pile of mortar and stone — while painting or sculpting or on a parked tractor or picking ladder. Perhaps conversing on a front porch during a break from banjo, guitar or fiddle. That’s the kind of folks that West Virginia produces and attracts — and I’m happy with that.

1 month ago | hampshirereview.com | Ted Kalvitis |Far Muse

Bet the title fooled you. Many readers likely presumed that I was about to review Nora Kimble’s book by that name. Well, no, that’s going to take a while. It’s a thick book, to be precise it’s 702 thousandths of an inch thick not including the covers. (Precise enough?) Of that 702, I’ve managed to find the time to read 86 thousandths of an inch of book content.

1 month ago | hampshirereview.com | Ted Kalvitis |Far Muse

Webster’s defines the word “novella” in part as “a work in fiction intermediate in length and complexity between a short story and a novel.”But this isn’t fiction; I only wish that it were. Our continuing adventures with that as yet unnamed, but not for much longer, communication company bears out the adage that truth is stranger than fiction. Indeed, if we were to compile what I’ve already written on this subject along with that which is to come, we might just have a neat little paperback.

1 month ago | winchesterstar.com | Ted Kalvitis

l read with intense interest Varonique De Rugy's article, ''Economic Nostalgia Fails us Again.''Many who believe that we can go back to those days of relative security and prosperity were never actually there. However, though boasting only a mere 71 years on this planet, l caught the rapidly fleeting tail end of those days of small farms and humming factories. My family actually owned both, nestled in that once-beautiful countryside between Somerville and Princeton, New Jersey.

2 months ago | hampshirereview.com | Ted Kalvitis |Far Muse

I’ve kept a journal of my daily work related activity for the past 20 years. It›s all handwritten in spiral notebooks and is tucked away in several metal filing cabinets. It’s a wealth of material for story telling, something l somehow knew l would wind up doing. But l never use it. It’s there if l need it, l suppose, but l would rather write as a product of these experiences. There’s a smaller sub-category to these volumes labeled NRM, for North River Mills.