Martin u. Ivo, Ich hab oft an euch durch der letzten Woche gedacht. Das Grund: Erstens denk ich hauefig an euch. Zweitens hatte ich die Zeit weil ich fuenf Tage in der Nervenklinik (Stressklinik) war! Jawohl! Das nervoes Krankenhaus! (Nervous Hospital–ein Witz) Irgendwie hab ich meine Perspectiv im letzten verloren.…
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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.
Dr. Cronon, I’m one of Dr. John Herron’s bright-eyed environmental history students at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. While I finish dissertation, I am teaching at a nearby community college during the school year. I’m also a working member of Ironworkers Local Union #10 and build bridges in the summer.…
Leave a CommentJimmy, You’re late. I’m already there. Actually, my latest obsession started with a good friend of mine, a painter in German of some repute. I’ve known him for 25 years and love his style. (See Martin Streit’s Web site. His work I refer to is under the links “bilder” and…
Leave a CommentGeorge, Each of us has a choice not to pursue that one thing, but that choice leads to a pitiful and miserable existence. There’s nothing special about redemption. When it becomes special, it becomes a commodity. As a commodity, it ceases to be redemption. Making the moves you have really…
Leave a CommentReggie, The last weeks have been great in painful ways. Some days have been fabulous wrecks, but nothing that didn’t come with the territory. Last week was pure entropy. I thought, hey, school’s out, now I have some time to put some creativity on the table. Then, I blew the…
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