Dear Jim, I only have an hour to craft a decent letter to you. I know it’s been a while and I haven’t been much in touch recently. I was glad to see, via Joyce, that you’re back to work. This means, I hope, that your elbow healed up well…
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.
Stan, This week was significant in that I didn’t feel I needed to fill the time, every second, with useful work. It’s not like I’ve done a lot of useful work lately, regardless of my efforts. But this week I didn’t let lack of accomplishment get me out of sorts.…
Leave a CommentJim, The last few days have been lovely—dark, rainy, windy. As you know, I love the dark weather and always have. When the days become bright, cheerful for most people, they irritate me with piercing lines and rough edges. It has something to do with my personality and way I…
Leave a CommentBilli, It’s been a very tough time lately. I’ve gone through one of my downturns. It started about the beginning of September and has continued on better or worse, depending on the day, since. I don’t know that I’ve described the way I feel during these emotional hard times. It…
Leave a CommentBilly, We were in Europe for three weeks, so I missed your message and have not had time to return it until today. As soon as we hit the ground after returning on Friday, I got busy setting up my fall semester–two online courses and two face-to-face classes. Since we left…
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