Loren Niemi
Fall is Coming
Friends, This Autumnal missive is late as is autumn itself. Summer is reluctant to leave, and though the light continues to slip away,...
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Loren Niemi
Jun 214 min
Images Mostly
Summer comes. Rain comes beneath great black clouds with quicksilver edges. Lightning? Thunder? Not so much. Rain in spasms, the sky...
Loren Niemi
Mar 203 min
Remembering
Friends, My oldest cousin Duane, died on February 20th. Cancer. Woke up one morning paralyzed from the shoulders down, diagnosed with...
Loren Niemi
Dec 22, 20237 min
Where Are We Now?
My scattered friends and beloveds, The long dark night of the winter solstice is upon us. 9:27 PM Central marks the arrival and to tell...
Loren Niemi
Jun 21, 20234 min
Rapture
Summer Solstice arrives ((in the Central Time zone) at 9:57 AM. It’s sunny, 73 now with an expected high of 92. The air quality is “iffy”...
Loren Niemi
Jun 5, 20235 min
Some Thoughts about AI
Now is the future (or at least part of it) that they said was coming and frankly it is as bad as they said it would be. What? Who is the...
Loren Niemi
Mar 23, 202310 min
One Thing Leads to Another
1) I am late in posting this missive. As late as spring’s arrival in Minnesota feels. When I got on the plane to go to the Texas...
Loren Niemi
Jan 31, 20233 min
Previews
Here at the end of January in Minneapolis it is cold. -9 with a predicted high of 9 above and good news, February will climb into the...
Loren Niemi
Dec 22, 202216 min
My Institutional Memory
The Solstice is upon us. The long cold night gives way to the still cold but sunny day. For myself, a time of ending a longstanding...
Loren Niemi
Nov 28, 20223 min
Fortuitous
As the Founder of the American School of Storytelling I have been asked what exactly is your vision for the school? My answer is the...
Loren Niemi
Oct 27, 20225 min
A Birthday Review
Today marks my 75th birthday. If you will indulge me, I’ll make a few observations on my life so far and my intentions going forward. If...
Loren Niemi
Sep 22, 20226 min
Books and Book Fairs
The highlight of my summer has been Calumet Edition’s publication of my poetic memoir - “A Breviary for the Lost” – which explores the...
Loren Niemi
Sep 2, 20224 min
Back to... Books
I see that I have been neglectful of blog posts this summer. July and August seemed to race by with their own crisis or pleasures and now...
Loren Niemi
Jun 21, 20226 min
Heat and Light
The predicted high for today is 95 and humid. Yesterday it was 101 and felt like it. Welcome to summer, and what, in the climate collapse...
Loren Niemi
May 9, 20224 min
The Audience in the Room
I see that I missed an April post. Perhaps that can be forgiven as the last 12 days of April were spent “on the road.” with performances...
Loren Niemi
Mar 20, 20228 min
These Three....
My Face Book memories offered up a post from Colleen Kruse from this date in 2019, asking if it was time for us to do another performance...
Loren Niemi
Feb 19, 20223 min
Thoughts on Men in Traditional Stories
In my book Point of View and the Emotional Arc of Stories (co-authored with Nancy Donoval and published by Parkhurst Brothers) I point...
Loren Niemi
Jan 21, 20223 min
Bits and Pieces in the Semblance of a Whole
The new year starts awkwardly. I will admit that I am disappointed that January’s “Long Form Story” class did not go. I am a little...
Loren Niemi
Dec 22, 20217 min
Sometimes the Darkness...
Sometimes the darkness overwhelms us. And I mean us, plural, as well as myself singular. This winter solstice it feels particularly thick...
Loren Niemi
Nov 23, 20216 min
A list
Last night I got a message that Robert Bly has passed through the veil. I was at a loss for words but in my silence I heard his voice....
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