Loren NiemiMay 94 minThe Audience in the RoomI 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 NiemiMar 208 minThese 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 NiemiFeb 193 minThoughts on Men in Traditional StoriesIn my book Point of View and the Emotional Arc of Stories (co-authored with Nancy Donoval and published by Parkhurst Brothers) I point...
Loren NiemiJan 213 minBits and Pieces in the Semblance of a WholeThe 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 NiemiDec 22, 20217 minSometimes 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 NiemiNov 23, 20216 minA listLast 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 NiemiSep 27, 20217 minArrivalMy 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 NiemiAug 25, 20215 minThe Thinking Behind a Little VideoI'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 NiemiJul 6, 20211 minA "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 NiemiJun 23, 20216 minThe Summer of '81On 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...
Loren NiemiJun 8, 20212 minAnnouncing two Swell OpportunitiesI’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...
Loren NiemiMay 1, 20213 minLooking for WorkHere is the quandary that the pandemic year has brought me to: the rhythm of performances balanced against or within teaching has been...
Loren NiemiMar 21, 202111 minA Year PassesFor many years, proximity to the Spring Equinox meant I was on the road. Touring the East Coast or Midwest, Hanging with my extended...
Loren NiemiMar 1, 20213 minIn Anticipation of March MadnessComing in March: Tuesday, the 9th, 7:00 PM Central - I'm in conversation with the prolific Jack Zipes about modern storytelling for Story...
Loren NiemiFeb 1, 20213 minThree ThingsThere 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...
Loren NiemiDec 22, 20209 minA Pandemic Solstice4:02 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...
Loren NiemiNov 24, 20204 minLosing My LudditeLet’s just sidestep the quagmire of impassioned feelings about the election and post-election fallout. You and I both know, as Coyote...
Loren NiemiOct 21, 20203 minTwin Cities Book FestivalFriends, 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...
Loren NiemiSep 22, 20207 minThe Season of TransformationFall is upon us (arriving at 8:30 AM Central time on Tuesday, September 22nd). Or at least astronomical fall as metrological fall has...
Loren NiemiSep 1, 20203 minComing to ZoomThere is so very much storytelling on the internets this pandemic year. Storytellers producing their own material or participating in...