Loren Niemi
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...
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Loren Niemi
Aug 25, 20215 min read
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, 20211 min read
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, 20216 min read
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...
Loren Niemi
Jun 8, 20212 min read
Announcing two Swell Opportunities
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...
Loren Niemi
May 1, 20213 min read
Looking for Work
Here is the quandary that the pandemic year has brought me to: the rhythm of performances balanced against or within teaching has been...
Loren Niemi
Mar 21, 202111 min read
A Year Passes
For many years, proximity to the Spring Equinox meant I was on the road. Touring the East Coast or Midwest, Hanging with my extended...
Loren Niemi
Mar 1, 20213 min read
In Anticipation of March Madness
Coming in March: Tuesday, the 9th, 7:00 PM Central - I'm in conversation with the prolific Jack Zipes about modern storytelling for Story...
Loren Niemi
Feb 1, 20213 min read
Three Things
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...
Loren Niemi
Dec 22, 20209 min read
A Pandemic Solstice
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...
Loren Niemi
Nov 24, 20204 min read
Losing My Luddite
Let’s just sidestep the quagmire of impassioned feelings about the election and post-election fallout. You and I both know, as Coyote...
Loren Niemi
Oct 21, 20203 min read
Twin Cities Book Festival
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...
Loren Niemi
Sep 22, 20207 min read
The Season of Transformation
Fall is upon us (arriving at 8:30 AM Central time on Tuesday, September 22nd). Or at least astronomical fall as metrological fall has...
Loren Niemi
Sep 1, 20203 min read
Coming to Zoom
There is so very much storytelling on the internets this pandemic year. Storytellers producing their own material or participating in...
Loren Niemi
Jul 18, 20202 min read
My Summer Reading
My summer reading for the last few weeks has been re-reading bits and pieces of my two latest books – “What Haunts Us” and “Point of View...
Loren Niemi
Jun 20, 20206 min read
Summer Pandemic
There is a story I tell about a man who is lost in a wood. It is shadow dark with only small slivers where sunlight pierces the green...
Loren Niemi
May 26, 20204 min read
Coming This Summer
Did I mention that I have a new book coming out in July from Parkhurst Brothers Publishing? The title - Point of View and the Emotional...
Loren Niemi
Apr 30, 20203 min read
How I Spend My Social Distancing
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...
Loren Niemi
Mar 22, 20206 min read
Elvis Has Left the Building
Friends, The astronomical calendar says Spring is sprung. My sense, or perhaps our collective sense is not “sprung” as the blossoming of...
Loren Niemi
Jan 28, 20203 min read
Seattle in February
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...
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