Loren Niemi
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...
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Loren Niemi
- Sep 22, 2020
- 7 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 2 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 4 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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, 2020
- 6 min
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, 2020
- 3 min
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...
Loren Niemi
- Jan 22, 2020
- 3 min
Less a story than a seed of a story
Recently I went to Milt Barker's funeraI. We entered the Christian Brothers (it’s a Catholic religious teaching order) together. Seven...
Loren Niemi
- Dec 21, 2019
- 4 min
The Passing Night
Friends, I write this with the winter Solstice about 15 hours away. Hanukkah begins Sunday evening. Christmas Eve comes on Tuesday and...
Loren Niemi
- Dec 17, 2019
- 7 min
On Becoming Board Chair
I have been asked and said yes to returning to the National Storytelling Network’s Board of Directors. Not only returning but also...
Loren Niemi
- Oct 18, 2019
- 1 min
Tis the Season for Chills....
Halloween is coming. Samhain in the older traditions is coming. Dia de los Muertos is coming. Looking to my Catholic roots All Saints and...
Loren Niemi
- Sep 24, 2019
- 5 min
Sweet and Savory
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...
Loren Niemi
- Jul 30, 2019
- 2 min
The Tribe Gathers
The 2019 National Storytelling Network Summit has ended and after the fact, what was that about? The usual elements of conferences -...
Loren Niemi
- Jun 22, 2019
- 6 min
The Measure of Myself (Solstice 2019)
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...
Loren Niemi
- Feb 16, 2019
- 1 min
Three Performances
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...
Loren Niemi
- Jan 31, 2019
- 1 min
Ghost Stories Old and New
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...
Loren Niemi
- Jan 9, 2019
- 1 min
The Adventure of 2019
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...