Author Archives: heidi

I will be reading from my newly-released book, “Waking to the Dream.” 10/12 FRI Nebraska Writers Guild Annual conference, Aurora, NE, TBA. 10/27 SAT John R Milton Conference, Vermilion, SD, Old Main. 11/1 THUR 6-8pm, a November Evening at Mo … Continue reading →

Moonstruck luminescence, a salt-of-the-earth groundedness, and wry wit fill Heidi Hermanson’s Waking to the Dream—a peripatetic journey down forgotten Midwestern backroads, along the current of the Niobrara, and through the labyrinthine curves of more spiritual pathways. These are grit-stung, fierce … Continue reading →

At the Catholic Church in Nebraska City, Nebraska.

Someone’s house on South 6th Street in Omaha.

…an admonishment to keep the cattle out, while those within slumber peacefully as they have since forever (Grandview Cemetery, east and north of Sidney).

Driving home from Brownville Sunday night on the old 136/67, I passed a Mennonite church. I am not the least bit religious (and you should ask me sometime why I’m no longer attending church), but, oddly enough, I’ve never passed … Continue reading →