J NelsonHow NOT to write for Medium…Connecting with other writers expands your audience, but low read through rates indicate structural flaws like those that lead to the rapid…14 min read·Feb 16, 2024----
J Nelson“Sailbad, the Sinner” (1949)[Transcription from a journal entry from 1949 by my paternal Grandmother involving a sailboat restoration. No syntax, grammar or…10 min read·Jan 8, 2024----
J Nelson“Year in Review” Post #19,653Spirit animals had a moment. Consider Eeyore as 2023’s symbolic mascot: in Milne’s classic, the dolorous stuffed donkey loses his tail, and…9 min read·Jan 2, 2024----
J NelsonGrosse Pointe LampoonAn anachronistic Detroit suburb across the water from Windsor, Canada: the French colonized it, the English squandered it and automakers…6 min read·Dec 10, 2023----
J NelsonLabor Day’s Long ShadowThere’s a groundswell of energy pushing labor leaders into our feeds. We almost know their faces, their positions and their most recent…11 min read·Aug 25, 2023----
J NelsonI'm overjoyed at the depth of love and understanding with which you have understood, excavated and…2 min read·Mar 29, 2023----
J NelsonMr Chew goes to WashingtonOne could believe that the TikTok CEO came to Washington with as much optimism as the fictional Senator played by Jimmy Stewart in the…6 min read·Mar 25, 2023----
J NelsonPolitics is broken. Society worksCarolyn and Tony got in their Jeep and set waze for the Acqueduct Raceway in Queens. They’re native New Yorkers, but they use an app…4 min read·Feb 5, 2021----
J NelsonE Pluribus Nihil (Out of Many, Nothing)There’s a passage in Crime & Punishment that reads as if Fyodor Dostoyevsky predicted our ‘covidified’ world from his desk in the late…15 min read·Oct 8, 2020----