Author: meagert

The Sleeping Giant Awakes

  Do you feel it? Stick your nose in the air, and you can even smell it. The Tide has turned. Oh, Ye of little faith! Woe be to those unaware! In the past, those who plotted to make hay while the giant slept, were soon to...

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What a long Strange Trip it’s been….

 My GGGGGrandfather came to North America in 1835. He was a humble Irish sawyer up in the Maritimes. That means he spent his day in the pit, drawing on the saw, up and down. Hard work by any measure. His son tried several...

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Book Review: Diary of a Contraband

     I have recently finished reading a book. That is amazing, in and of itself. For most of my life, to read was to live, but the last decade or so, if it wasn’t on the internet, I didn’t read it....

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Terrorism at Home

Why is it only “our side” that seems to receive such vitriol, and violence. Now mind you, I don’t mean for us to do the same, or that we are free from blame. It is more a reflection of  “them”,...

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Cognitive Dissonance

Disclaimer: I admit that my diaries are short today, but I’m just trying to get my bloggin’ chops back….bear with me, if you can.  What humans do, to justify their actions, is so simplistic, its scary....

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