Loren Niemi

The Write Launch has just published on-line one of my "literary" stories - "Chattanooga" - a dizzy dive into the cosmology of Bad Jazz as...

On this day after the Summer Solstice, I have been thinking about summer’s past: the summer of ’71 when I was one of six guys working at...

I’ll admit that this is a belated post. Just as what should have come in April arrived on the blog doorstep May1st. this one seems to...

Here is the quandary that the pandemic year has brought me to: the rhythm of performances balanced against or within teaching has been...

For many years, proximity to the Spring Equinox meant I was on the road. Touring the East Coast or Midwest, Hanging with my extended...

Coming in March: Tuesday, the 9th, 7:00 PM Central - I'm in conversation with the prolific Jack Zipes about modern storytelling for Story...

There are few hours left in January. Not that it makes much difference to you, the reader, but for my promise to myself to post a blog...

4:02 AM comes - the Solstice moment - I get up to feed the cats. When I go back to bed, I have a dream that begins with me having coffee...

Let’s just sidestep the quagmire of impassioned feelings about the election and post-election fallout. You and I both know, as Coyote...

Friends, While I was sitting for at a virtual table for three days at the Twin Cities Book Festival, waiting for someone to wander by on...

Fall is upon us (arriving at 8:30 AM Central time on Tuesday, September 22nd). Or at least astronomical fall as metrological fall has...

There is so very much storytelling on the internets this pandemic year. Storytellers producing their own material or participating in...

My summer reading for the last few weeks has been re-reading bits and pieces of my two latest books – “What Haunts Us” and “Point of View...

There is a story I tell about a man who is lost in a wood. It is shadow dark with only small slivers where sunlight pierces the green...

Did I mention that I have a new book coming out in July from Parkhurst Brothers Publishing? The title - Point of View and the Emotional...

Here it is the end of April and I’ve been in both formal and informal lockdown for what – six weeks, eight weeks now? You’d think I could...

Friends, The astronomical calendar says Spring is sprung. My sense, or perhaps our collective sense is not “sprung” as the blossoming of...

For the last few years I have spent some portion of the winter / early spring in Albuquerque, NM but not this winter. While I was at the...

Recently I went to Milt Barker's funeraI. We entered the Christian Brothers (it’s a Catholic religious teaching order) together. Seven...

Friends, I write this with the winter Solstice about 15 hours away. Hanukkah begins Sunday evening. Christmas Eve comes on Tuesday and...