Loren Niemi

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...