One moment the sleigh was slipping silently over a dark, treeless landscape, then the next it seemed they were plummeting from the sky. “Hold on, Joe!” his grandfather said. “Really?” Joe said, grasping the edge of the sleigh as tight…

Joe and his grandfather stood next to the sleigh while Levi David and Wyatt James made some adjustments to things. “Where are we going?” Joe asked. “Well, I was hoping you had an idea on that subject,” his grandfather said.…

Day 4: Journey The sleigh descended in a gentle spiral, giving Joe a view of a brightly lit town bustling with elves and reindeer dashing here and there. “Is that…?” “Yup, the one and only,” his grandfather said. “Cool how…

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.…

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…

Whenever the weather permits, which around here is quite infrequent, I try to take advantage and get some photos of Deep Space Objects (DSO) or the planets. One of the aspects I miss from Arizona was in the three years…

There is no nice way to say this, so I am just going to say it, much as it grieves me to do so. Mr. President, you are an idiot. I do not say this lightly, but I do say…

Shirley!Shirley, Shirley Bo-ber-leyBo-na-na fanna Fo-fer-leyFee-fi-mo-mer-leyShirley! Apparently, the biggliest challenge facing our military, and by extension all areas of government, is the name of the department that runs it. Over the course of time, wokeness has caused us to dilute the…