Elected officials and developers have worked with public tax dollars to rebuild downtown, but they continue to neglect large areas of Kansas City in need of attention.
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.
At 17, Nick is a good kid. He has many attributes, among which the most important are empathy and patience. He’s good at school, loves his robotics team, and does well around the house. We’ve not yet had to deal with a drug or alcohol incident. I consider we are…
Leave a CommentFor decades now, a memory has flickered and made me feel lonely the same way television light in house windows at night do. My cowboy chaps, hat, and vest made me sweat. I laid atop the dusty blow-up pool that no longer held air. The plastic was hot in the…
Leave a CommentBoth Syd and Nick passed their infant and toddler years without me, and I regret it. I don’t have remorse about the things I did that caused me to miss these formative years. But I missed their first steps and their first words. I missed their crying in the middle…
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