Auggie, I love getting letters. It’s something that doesn’t happen much anymore, and I miss it. I got hooked on letter writing and the mailbox when I was in Germany now 25 years ago. Being alone in another land, I really hung on the mere possibility of getting news, a…
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.
Dear Billie, A far as your annual gathering of our old friends, I am envious. I have not seen any of these people for years—Jimmy since 1983! I have very fond memories of each of the participants (except the husbands, who joined the game long after I was defeated). Time…
Leave a CommentReverend, I don’t mind being left out, as you know. I’m not cool, never been cool, and don’t really know what it is to be cool. Being left out is a way of life, you might say. So, with your note you pee on the wrong tree, my friend. Since…
Leave a CommentRichard, Thanks for the note. I’m sorry it’s taken so long for me to get back with you. I only check this E-mail occasionally in the summer. I’m glad you noticed about the geology. Rocks are important. I just wish I could speak of them with greater (or any) authority.…
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