Welcome to my site

Have a story to tell? Let me help.

For more than 30 years, I’ve helped document the people, places, things and events as part of my work as a journalist in communities in Kentucky, North Carolina and Mississippi. Now, as a freelance writer and editor, I’m helping others in telling the stories about their loved ones.

Need help writing an obituary? I can assist. Want to craft the perfect eulogy? I’m here to support you. Click here to learn more about my services.

Michael’s descriptive style of writing took everyone on a journey from birth to the end.

Janace Jones

Follow this creative journey

I’m currently at work on completing the first draft of my first novel. It’s been quite the process as I’ve learned a great deal not only about the craft of creative writing, but also gained new insight as to who I am as a person.

I encourage you to follow Michael’s Blog to read some of my favorite stories from the past, as well as some of the things I’m currently working on and various thoughts, musings, contemplations and diversions.

Some of my most recent posts …

Brenda Robinson

Nov. 7, 1949-March 12, 2022 MORGANFIELD, Ky. — In Cat Alley, when the flood waters recede and the sun comes again, a bouquet of daisies and lilies erupt from the black soil – fertile ground tended by the river bottom farmers and their families. It was in that dark dirt where Brenda Diane Babbs Robinson … Continue reading “Brenda Robinson”

by Michael Banks

Healer of bodies, minds and souls

John Glenn Creel is a family doctor that runs his own practice, Walterboro Adult & Pediatric Medicine, and is chief of the Edisto Natchez-Kusso Tribe of SC and pastor of his own church, Little Rock Holiness Church.
“I try to use my time wisely. When I’m sitting, I just can’t sit.”

by Michael Banks

Come say hello

Questions? Comments? Just want to say hello? I’d love to hear from you. Come find out more about just who is Michael Banks. And, once again, thanks for finding your way here to Michael Banks 360. I hope you enjoy your stay.