Loren Niemi

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...

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...

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...

In my book Point of View and the Emotional Arc of Stories (co-authored with Nancy Donoval and published by Parkhurst Brothers) I point...

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...

Sometimes the darkness overwhelms us. And I mean us, plural, as well as myself singular. This winter solstice it feels particularly thick...

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....

My arrival in Albuquerque coincided with the fall Equinox. It is fitting, I suppose, to begin a new season in a “new” place though this...

I've been thinking a lot about America in a time of Covid and the rise of the Delta variant. Over the month of August, I’ve posted about...

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...