Loren Niemi
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”...
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Loren Niemi
- Jun 5
- 5 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
- 10 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
- 3 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, 2022
- 16 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, 2022
- 3 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, 2022
- 5 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, 2022
- 6 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, 2022
- 4 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, 2022
- 6 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, 2022
- 4 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, 2022
- 8 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, 2022
- 3 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, 2022
- 3 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, 2021
- 7 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, 2021
- 6 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....
Loren Niemi
- Sep 27, 2021
- 7 min
Arrival
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...
Loren Niemi
- Aug 25, 2021
- 5 min
The Thinking Behind a Little Video
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...
Loren Niemi
- Jul 6, 2021
- 1 min
A "long-short story"
The Write Launch has just published on-line one of my "literary" stories - "Chattanooga" - a dizzy dive into the cosmology of Bad Jazz as...
Loren Niemi
- Jun 23, 2021
- 6 min
The Summer of '81
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...
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