Billie, Frankly, I don’t really know how summer is going yet. School’s pace, which always seems to be furious, has given way to days on which I have to impose my own discipline. In other words, I went from having my hair on fire all the time to sitting in…
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.
Karen, Can you imagine? Me in an internet professional network? I just got your LinkedIn invite. You need to read my profile if you haven’t already, just to make sure you want to be associated with me in a venue like LinkedIn. Seriously, I hope things are well and you…
Leave a CommentRudi, Es ist schon ueber eine Monat seit du mir schriebst. Als dein E-mail kam, war ich in der letzte Tage meinen Unterrichten. Dann Pruefungen, Korrigieren, Noten, usw. Ich hatte vier unterrichten—und Haufen zu tun. Dieser Sommer hab ich es schoen. Virginia ist angestellte Krankenschwester bei einem grossen Krankenhaus heir…
Leave a CommentDear Eddy, Your comment about modern conservatism is well taken. There’s real conservatism, and then there’s the reactionary-ism of Hannity, Limbaugh, etc. Will used to be a real conservative until he fell in with the Jonah Goldberg crowd. Just reactionaries out to protect wealth and power. This is just awful…
Leave a CommentDear Gunther, I decided yesterday that it’s been too long since I dropped you a note to see how you are and to piss and moan. So, the first thing this morning, I’ve decided to keep the pissing and moaning down to this: I’m trying to get motivated for this…
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