One bummer about Seattle August is the “tradition” of the Blue Angels. Others have written more eloquently about the...
529. Imagine Somalia
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Paul E Nelson Blog
Reading/Career Counseling Event
Never thought I'd write THAT blog post title, but there you go. And it's another opportunity for you to BUY A COPY of...
Happy 4th Birthday Ella Roque Nelson
Happy Birthday today, March 17, 2016, to my youngest daughter Ella Roque. She got her first taste of chicharrones this...
528. Prayers & Street Chorizo
Yes, demons were a sub-theme of my work in the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest. More demons, another memory of the...
World Poetry Day
World Poetry Day is March 21. Don't feel bad, I did not know that either and it has been apparently been happening...
Birthday Anagram for Solihin Thom
I have a YUGE amount of gratitude for my current state of health and joy to the man who suggested I investigate the...
Left, Egalitarian Validation
How do you know if someone is a vegan? They'll tell you. I'm not a vegan, but when I first heard the phrase Left...
Postcards for Peace
I participated in the first World Peace Poets postcard project this past February, after being invited by Carla...
527. Choose Your Pronoun
The latest poem to be posted from the 2015 August Poetry Postcard Fest:
Bioregional Cultural Investigation
We do what we know before we know what we do. - Charles Olson. Little did I know in 2012 that the first Cascadia...
Seattle Not So Great
Great article by Danny Westneat (former Valley Daily News columnist) about whether Seattle is great. In the article,...
Beached America (Bob Koehler)
Bob Koehler is a Chicago-based Peace Journalist who has written an op-ed for Buzzflash at Truthout entitled: "When a...