I’m a lover of words by heart and a storyteller by profession. For decades, I’ve told stories in print, but over the past few years, I’ve been drawn to audio and video storytelling. Sometimes, these are combined into multimedia storytelling. You can call it multifaceted, but I call it multi-fabulous.

Ever since I was a kid, I’ve adored stories. This love attained a deeper dimension when I went to Colby College — in good old (cold) Waterville, Maine — where I got my B.A. in English with a minor in Creative Writing for Fiction. I then attended the graduate Creative Writing program, again in Fiction, at Boston University (I didn’t graduate. Why? That’s a long story…) After all that education, I lived in Provincetown, Mass., on Cape Cod, for seven years, where I worked for a handful of summer mags and a start-up paper, the Provincetown Banner. (Back then, I wrote under the name Timothy XX Burton.)

In 2003, I moved to Seattle, where I worked as a staff reporter and assistant editor at Real Change, a weekly paper sold on the street by vendors, most of whom are unhoused folks or low-wage earners. I worked my tail off there, but the job offered an opportunity to do long-form journalism, which was fantastic. When I left in 2015, I decided to try the freelance route. That’s led me to write for numerous print and web publications, produce radio features, edit video and become a local emcee/host. And I’m also working on a book about my experiences being a Black, queer person who ventured into the backcountry of the Olympic rain forest — and took a solo backpack journey.

These and other stories will live on this site. Here, you’ll also discover other pieces I’ve crafted — written, audio, video — that tell new, engaging and heartfelt stories about all of us.

So, let me what you think. Share your ideas. Tell me a story.

And I’ll tell you one, too…