If you’re at all familiar with Key West, you know this spot and, most likely, have taken a selfie in front of it. It’s the…
J.C. Bruce
Author: J.C. Bruce
One of the books clubs to which I belong recently read Olive Kitteridge and Olive Again by Elizabeth Strout. It was a two-in-one-month reading assignment…
The Widows is a damned good mystery well told. But it is so much more. If you’re a fan of detective novels, you’re going to…
The Grouse That Roared I have this fantastic idea for a book that I would like to pitch to New York publishers, but I thought…
New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof has recycled a two-year-old column in the wake of the El Paso and Dayton mass murders in which he points out…
Downsized, Disconnected: A Smaller Military at Work We were herded from the rooftop of the American Embassy in the West African Republic of Nogoland. Gun…
Storms in the Dead of Night FORT BRAGG, N.C. – It’s the dead of night and we’re standing in a flatbed truck in the middle…
Aboard a City at Sea They call it a COD. It’s a noisy, smelly, albatross of an airplane the Navy uses to shuttle cargo and…
NORAD Keeps Eye on the Sky COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – We were deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, buried beneath thousands of feet of solid granite designed…
‘Remember We’re Here’ How important is a strong military to the United States? Ask Adm. James Loy, commandant of the Coast Guard: “Because of the…