✳︎Axoplasm is Paul Souders

A partial selfie of Paul Souders and his wife taken in front of the Olympic mountains

I am the principal and sole employee of SCRUBJAY. I live in Portland, Oregon with my family. I wish I could ride my bike over this hill every day. In my youth I practiced archaeology and wrote terrible short fiction. I have collected a few of my ♥ favorite essays. “Axoplasm” is a real word. My pronouns are he/him/his.

Elsewhere

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Recent entries in my web-log

Backpack and fast food bag on the floor of a car

2023-05-19

“Homelessness” as a social construct

I recently realized that, for a period in my early 20s, I technically could have been “homeless.”

closeup of English lawn daisies

2023-05-15

Complaining on Social Media

I realized a few weeks ago that most of what I poast here on social media is some version of dropping anonymous complaints into a suggestion box.

A clean, well-maintained separated bike path in Sapporo, Japan

2023-04-25

Some cats

An accidental poem

Faded commercial sign from a neighborhood convenience store, long-since closed, reading “BUSY CORNER GROCERY since 1910” followed by a mostly-illegible list of product that includes “Helium,” “Wine,” and “Gift Baskets”

2023-04-15

A career manifesto is just words

My manifesto is for shit but in 30 years I have noticed some patterns

2023-03-23

1400 summits in 2 minutes

To celebrate the 11th anniversary AND 1400th visit to Council Crest, I made a little video thingy