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PAUL E NELSON

32. Bear Camp Road

It has been over a year that I have been attending open mic events regularly again. I once described myself as an “open mic addict” but did not realize that Red Sky Poetry Theater was an exception, not the rule, regarding such events. & so faced with...

New Pageboy + Release Party

I was delighted to get the email that alerted me to the latest edition of Seattle’s Best Little Magazine (according to “The Stranger.”) That my pals Greg Bem and Nadine Maestas were in it was good enough for me to plunk down my $11 digital Yankee...

How to Resist Occupying Forces

In the U.S. Federal Government shutdown, created by the power a relatively small group of Congressmen have on one of the two main political parties in the U.S., has parallels to other occupying forces in world history that are remarkable. That the people are occupied...

Government Shutdown/Biosphere Shutdown

In my last (non-postcard) post, I made reference to a review in B.C. Bookworld about a book on climate change from a Canadian author who foresees the huge invasion in Canada of USAmerican “climate refugees” who will be fleeing the U.S. South and Midwest...