This is my 300th website entry. I’ve been at it for seven years, or 33.33 posts a year. If we take into consideration that the average length of a blog post/essay here is 1,200 words, the total is 360,000 words, the equivalent of three modern novels or five to six…
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.
I’m mercurial when it comes to my hair, mostly because the length of my hair used to matter a lot. I like it short, really short. I like it long, really long. What I don’t like is maintaining a particular look. it’s tedious and boring, and just not a part…
One CommentFrancis was a disagreeable character who lived in the room next to mine at the top of the winery and drink technology apprentice school in Trier, Germany. We shared a small bathroom and shower stall at the end of the hallway of four rooms. Our rooms were only about 8’…
Leave a CommentThe years between the ages of 17 and 22 have gotten lost. When I run into an old classmate (which is not often), they recall the times easily and without hesitation. They speak of the time with authority. Maybe those were good years for them and those times stand out…
One CommentFor two summers when I was working on my dissertation, I rode my bike from my house to the History Department building at UMKC. I took up at a desk in the graduate student lounge at 9 or 10 in the morning. I worked through the day, sometimes getting a…
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