Billie,Again, I bitch about the absolutely inadequate language with have for sex and sex organs. Take “blowjob,” for instance. When I hear blow, I think of bailing out of the plane and blowing into the red hose to inflate my PFD. “Suck,” too. that slurpy, bubbly sound at at the…
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.
Sugarplum, Hey. I was just thinking of something your boss/colleague at the art gallery said to me once: “Your daughter is so talented. Her work shows such great composition and eye for what’s important in creating a piece. And she incorporates so much understanding of art history.” I don’t know…
Leave a CommentBillie, Love the time wasting potential of the new device. After a few weeks, the smarting pain of my wife’s nature–and knowing what $700 of iPad, warrantee, and cover can do with interest compounded over the course of 20 years–will fade. At that point, I will consider the iPad a…
Leave a CommentAllie, My friend Jeanne just sent me the discussion you brought up regarding minority participation on the job site. I’m right there with you. I saw some of the nasty posts. I’m sorry so many ironworkers are small minded when it comes to race. Frankly, I don’t participate in these…
Leave a CommentJim, Many of these sights in the city center you can enjoy in a day’s walk. Very leisurely. If it seems like a lot, look at the distances in the map legend. From the Porta Nigra to the Kaiserthermen is only about a kilometer. Some of these things you will…
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