The Cartographer of Small Distances
The morning Vera Ostrowski mapped her kitchen, she used a ruler, a legal pad, and forty years of accumulated silence. She had been a…
From the Desk
The Writing of Joe Broadmeadow
The Germ of Annihilation
On a Universe That Needs No Maker by Joe Broadmeadow We remember Edgar Allen Poe for the tell-tale heart and the raven at the…
Rhode Island Deserves a Way Out: Ken Block for Governor
By Joe Broadmeadow For more than a generation, the single party governing Rhode Island is so well entrenched that the machinery of state has…
The Enduring Advantages: How White Males Have Benefited from the Systemic Oppression of Minorities and Women
An Analysis of Structural Inequality in Western Civilization The history of Western civilization, and much of the modern global order, cannot be told without…
Critique of a False Christian Meme
This meme, shared by those who claim Christ as a mascot more than a sincere understanding of the faith, is not an expression…
Threescore and Ten
Author's note: In keeping with my plan to check out on my birthday for the sake of balance, I have survived another and look…
The Joy of Purity
Joe Broadmeadow There are three things in this world that should never be changed. Ice cream should be vanilla. Pizza should have anchovies. And…
Okay, now this is getting ridiculous
by Joe Broadmeadow Today, I turn seventy years old. I want to say that again because it hasn’t sunk in and I’m not sure…
A Conversation on the Porch
The year is 2050. I am now 94 (I can dream, can't I?) and engaged in a conversation with my two grandsons, Levi, age…
What the Ice Keeps
The memory didn’t come back all at once. It came back the way ice breaks in March—a crack, then another, then the whole black…