I admit to my potty mouth. Growing up where I did, going to Catholic schools, and being a drunk for most of my first 30 years…well, it affected me. I could say that these things gave me a dirty mind, a love of danger, and a knack for iconoclasm. But…
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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.
I lost my breath when I spied the beauty on the pool deck. I was reading my book and didn’t see her show up. When I did see her, she was getting ready to lay out in the sun. In that heat and kids yelling and screaming, she was like…
Leave a CommentLieber Udo, Verzeihst mir meine schreibfauligkeit im letzten. Ich hoffe das dieser brief dich schoen gluecklich befindet. Hier geht’s alle sehr gut. Erste September wurde mein buch, Seldom Seen: A Journey into the Great Plains, veroeffentlicht. Man wuerde sich mal denken dass es eine zeit zu feiern war. Aber ich…
Leave a CommentThe next generation will be less educated than we are. At least that’s what the American Association of State Colleges and Universities says in a new report that is pretty dismal all the way around. A couple of acquaintances and I were talking about it. The first thing that came…
Leave a CommentHarold, Your effort, if you think about it, comes at just the right time. Racism gets hidden under all kinds of rhetoric that blames not only the subjects of oppression but those who would seek to ease the human condition even just a little bit. The alleged populist movements directed…
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