The Writing of Joe Broadmeadow

This is from a series of short stories I am working on. Posted here for your reading pleasure and review.  All comments welcome. My cell rang. I didn’t recognize the number. Thought about ignoring it, then decided to give the telemarketer some…

A person of color was killed the other day. Thirty years old, shot and killed for being the wrong color. The media coverage, non-existent. The attention span of this country to this problem apparently exhausted. We are more inclined to…

“There’s a sucker born every minute…” This phrase, popularly attributed to P.T Barnum, was most likely spoken by David Hannum, in criticism of both P. T. Barnum and those that patronized Barnum’s shows. No matter who said it, there is a great…

To borrow a line from Paul Simon’s song, Kodachrome; When I think back on all the crap I learned in high school It’s a wonder I can think at all… Although much of the “Lie” I write about began in…

Let us take the position of Kim Davis, the Rowan County Clerk of Courts, to its logical conclusion. (I wonder if this is a revival of Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-in?) What would this mean for America, should she be permitted…

One year ago, September 3, 2014, I finished one of the most difficult, demanding, debilitating, and daunting things I have ever done. Standing on the peak of Mt. Katahdin after hiking 2,185 miles on the Appalachian Trail. Lost 30 lbs,…

The final production of the audio version of Silenced Justice is finished and the project is in the distribution stages. It will soon be available on Amazon, iTunes, Audible, and other audio book sites. The book was read by Brian…

I took my two Yorkies, Max and Ralph, on a tour of the now long closed Cumberland Landfill off Albion Road. We jointly ignored the no trespassing sign and headed up the road. In the foggy memory of my eight-year…

She had a name. Well, in a sense she had a name. In our propensity for anthropomorphic depictions of nature’s other creatures, we gave her a name. Blaze. Blaze was a 20-year-old sow, which sounds harmless, until you add she…