Loren Niemi

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 manage a post befor...

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

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 National Storytellin...

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

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

I have been asked and said yes to returning to the National Storytelling Network’s Board of Directors. Not only returning but also serving as the Board Chair...

Halloween is coming. Samhain in the older traditions is coming. Dia de los Muertos is coming. Looking to my Catholic roots All Saints and All Souls is coming...

Friends, I did Two Chairs Telling for 25 years and still do it now and again upon request. On the positive side, it was such a pleasure to put two people who...

The 2019 National Storytelling Network Summit has ended and after the fact, what was that about? The usual elements of conferences - Keynotes, workshops, per...

Friends In lieu of cataract surgery, which the doctor said I am not in need of (yet); I got new glasses that have gone a long way towards improving my view o...

Right now the calendar is wonky. In fact when I went to add events I lost it from view but I'll use this blog post as an alternative to announce three upcomi...

February, the month of hearts and flowers. For me it will be the month in which my collection of ghost stories - What Haunts Us? - comes into the world by wa...

The start of the year and the first blog on my site. The tree and the shadow of the tree. The actual and the memory, the essential and the projection of what...