Uncles CM-JM, In your previous letter, you mentioned my parents and how their visit went. I tell you, my uncles, that the relationship or non-relationship I have with my parents is the great challenges of my life. For many years, I was quite angry–not at any one thing but a…
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.
Persephone, I’m so glad to hear about your increased mobility and its benefits. It could happen to a better person, but I don’t know that there are better people. Gee, I don’t know about the gun thing chasing off evil spirits. My gun mojo is not nearly as positive. I…
Leave a CommentDear Syd, I’m so glad to hear you like your job a Grant Village. Yellowstone, you know, is an entrance to the center of the earth. The caldera is huge, giant. The forces that make the world go around are close to the surface. Enjoy it. Not everyone gets to…
Leave a CommentDear Genice, Admittedly, the truth about the Biblegod is as I gather it from a number of sources. As far as the literary aspects of this discussion, I teach a reading seminar in Western Civilization (I and II). We read 14-15 key books in the course. Among them are Myths…
Leave a CommentDear Genice, Walt Whitman says not to argue concerning god. But I have yet to be able to walk away from a hornet’s nest without sticking my finger in it. So, here’s a long answer to your short question: A Judeo-Christian God derives from a creation story of a desert…
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