Billie, You know asking me what’s up is a loaded question, I think. I write, so that’s why you’ll get the lowdown. I understand that most people do not write letters or expect them when they send a quick E-mail. Forgive me. My class is taking a test right now, which…
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.
Jaquie, I was busy today and looked only very briefly at the last letter you sent. In reference to men making brash and unsupported (or that they support with specious and biased bullshit) statements about women, I only get angry, then I get mean, and finally I become thoughtful and…
Leave a CommentJesus, Roger, I get it. More than I can tell you, I get it. Employment is hell. Period. Your feelings and sentiments about the your job sound a lot like my book-editing days at a family-owned publisher. I’d worked for a newspaper for several years. An out-of-town corporation bought the…
Leave a CommentDear Billi, Lily Munster, Morticia Addams, and all the Catwomen dominated my teen life. I find they have a lot to do with my middle-age life too. (I swear, I try not to be a pig. I tell myself every morning, don’t be a pig, don’t be a pig, don’t…
Leave a CommentToday I filled in the City of Kansas City, Missouri, bike survey. It smelled like another hired-consultant in the bushes. I suppose they want the “pulse of the city” on bikes and riding bikes. The survey writers limited the questions and responses in such a way to say, really, nothing…
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