In the quiet I can hear the uncertainty of god and its existence or nonexistence. It feels good, not to know the mind of god or to believe that god’s faculties have anything to do with me, you, or this physical existence. If god is then it is not human…
2 CommentsAuthor: 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.
Maybe someone should tell the reactionaries among us that they shouldn’t use other people’s assholes as basis for conversations. If opinions are like assholes and everyone has one, one thing we have to admit is they are all pretty much the same in form and function. The problem with our…
Leave a CommentDear Joanie, It’s been thirty years since I saw you last. I was stunned at how beautiful you’ve become. What was once the buff glow of youth has turned into a loveliness that reflects your inner being. Sometimes, at least you tell me, you fear getting old, age is creeping…
Leave a CommentAndy, I like to think that our comptetitive world doesn’t have to be this way. And, yes, anyone who does not have access to means of economic or social production is that means, of course, that of all the peopel who have to work, which is not everyone, they have…
One CommentThe following is a letter to Missouri Lieutenant Governor Peter Kinder, who joined a lawsuit filed by 13 states attorney generals against the recent health care reform legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama.—Dear Lieutenant Governor Kinder, I’m disheartened and ashamed that you have taken steps…
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