Nick
nmele.bsky.social
Nick
@nmele.bsky.social
Old enough that one of my early memories is of my mother listening anxiously to the Joe McCarthy hearings on the radio.
Please include the former Astoria!
December 23, 2025 at 2:36 AM
As a sage often notes, “USA delenda est”.
December 4, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Re: coffee sucks: de gustibus non disputandem est.

I like coffee, hot and black; I also like craft vinegar drinks.
December 4, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Recently, a friend gave me jalapeño cornbread. Not at all sweet but delicious!
December 1, 2025 at 4:40 PM
He stopped once in Sierra Leone to rest after playing several festivals elsewhere. He gave a performance in the disco of his hotel one evening. He was amazing! And so gracious!
November 25, 2025 at 12:57 AM
I attended a Catholic primary school in the 1950s and early 1960s in New York City. The response to airport raid sirens was to line us up by class in the hallway of a building a few miles from central Manhattan, thus launching me on a journey of skepticism.
November 21, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Some time later, the port of Bari stole St. Nicholas’s bones and the bones are still in Bari.
November 21, 2025 at 8:57 PM
The big number is in Trump bucks.
November 19, 2025 at 3:53 AM
He called me when I was elected to the Pax Christi USA National Council. He was committed and hardworking and also friendly, funny and generous. And he is indeed loved!
October 10, 2025 at 4:15 AM
Reposted by Nick
It is incredibly difficult to get folks to understand that there are literally 20-30 people in DC who could end all of this tomorrow, & all of them are Republicans in Congress, & no one in the National Conversation seems interested in paying attention to that.
September 29, 2025 at 10:33 PM
I see you’re in Denver.
September 22, 2025 at 2:22 AM
Thank you for saying what I’ve been thinking all week!
September 21, 2025 at 5:15 PM