Maenner, Erstens, Ivo, die Zigarren…was kann ich sagen? Wir sassen uns draussen im Garten in dunkele Nacht. Als unser Zigarren kurz wuchsten, der Hund hinterm Zaun knurrte. Die Kaetzte nebenueber schreiten. Die Froeshe und Voegel hat protestiert. Die ganze Nachbarschaft wollte nur ein Paar Minuten mit Castro mehr Zweitens, ich…
Leave a CommentAuthor: Patrick Dobson
Dr. Patrick Dobson is a work in progress until his termination. In the meantime, He is a writer, scholar, postman, and college professor living in Kansas City, MO.
The University of Nebraska Press published his travel memoirs, Canoeing the Great Plains: A Missouri River Summer in 2015 and Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains in 2009. Canoeing the Great Plains won the 2016 High Plains Book Award in Creative Nonfiction and the Thorpe Menn Literary Excellence Award. His essays and poems have been published in New Letters, daCunha, Kansas City Star, Garo, Wood Coin, and JONAHmagazine, and others.
Dobson earned a doctorate in American History and Literature at the University of Missouri-Kansas City in 2013. He has edited books, taught journalism, and been a union ironworker. He now teaches American History, Modern Latin American History, and Western Civilization at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park, KS.
He looks forward to hearing from you soon.
Dear Editors. Charles Guswelle wrote that floods “are the work of an indifferent nature,” and that nature, not the U.S. Supreme Court and Army Corps of Engineers, ought decide who or doesn’t take losses in flood (“Who gets to decide between survivors and victims?” 5/29/11). High water is a condition…
Leave a CommentStephanie, I’ve put a lot of thought into our discussion the other day and my inability to express in speech what seems so important but also so ordinary. Sure, I said I had understood Enlightenment. But to it I hold a nonposition. I don’t even speak of it, usually. You…
Leave a CommentHoward, Take a look at these photos. It was the first time I did good with a pinhole camera. No, not really. Nothing like this is a complete loss, however, or even a loss at all. I learned a lot, like the importance of making sure the shutter stays shut…
Leave a CommentYep. Glenn Beck is part of an evil conspiracy to take your money, make you work harder, and leave you poorer. And not just you, but everyone all over the world who works for living just like you. Mr. Conspiracy forgot to tell you, first, that alleged American corporations don’t…
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