…our world. Where we endure these endless events of senseless violence and death until they fade away while ignoring the fact we are mere moments away from the next one. Where people gathered at an educational institution formed for the…

As Joe made his way along the sidewalk, his grandfather fell into step with him. “Where’d you come from?” Joe asked. “Well, Ireland originally by way of New York, a long year spent on a government all-expense paid trip to…

Joe woke early, before the alarm, something that almost never happened. With dawn still struggling to chase the night away, it wasn’t light that woke him. Climbing out of bed, rubbing his eyes, he tried to get them to focus.…

Day 1: Something New in the Sky As  Joe made his way home, something in the sky caught his eye. “What is that?” Joe said, stopping to look. Taking his backpack off, he dropped it on the ground. The top…

Okay, class, we are going to start the day with a pop quiz. Simple two question test on current affairs. Ready? Who WAS Alejandro Carranza? Who IS Juan Orlando Hernández? Come on, now. This should be easy. Okay, times up.…

The human capacity for self-delusion knows no bounds. We believe ourselves to be intelligent, rational beings yet are willing to embrace, without evidence or factual data, rumors, belief systems, urban legends, paranormal incidents, or even claims of near-death experience as…

In 2006, in the cold Arctic north, in an area on Ellesmere Island in Nunavut, Canada, the fossilized remains of our great, great, great to the nth degree uncle Tiktaalik were discovered. The name, Tiktaalik, is a Inuktitut word meaning…

If you were to ask most Americans to name the longest war we have ever fought, they would say the war in Iraq and Afghanistan. They would be wrong by a factor of three. This one is still ongoing. The…

During the battle of Shiloh, April 6-7, 1862 in western Tennessee the combined casualties exceeded 24,000 with almost 3,500 killed. Reports of a strange phenomenon came from the battlefield of wounded men with a blue glow emanating from their wounds.…

Coming up on the twelve-year-cycle I wrote about here, https://joebroadmeadowblog.com/2019/01/24/an-american-twelve-year-memory-loss/, I wonder what 2028 will offer us? The last time I wrote about this, 2016, we had just elected Trump to his first term. Somehow we survived, chose not to…