Oldies But Goodies From The Strange Files
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 southernmost point buoy, allegedly erected, as the name implies,...
J.C. Bruce Blog
Oh, Olive! We Hardly Knew You…
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 that I, at first, found irritating, but then realized...
The Widows: A Damned Good Mystery–and More
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 love this book, never mind that it’s an historical...
The Grouse That Roared
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 I’d try it out here first. Let me know...
The Lessons of Dayton
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 the unsurprising correlation between gun ownership and gun deaths....
Downsized, Disconnected: A Smaller Military at Work
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 smoke and dust filled the air as I approached...
Storms in the Dead of Night
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 of a thunderstorm watching tracer fire streak past us...
Aboard a City at Sea
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 sailors from shore to aircraft carriers at sea. On...
NORAD Keeps Eye on the Sky
NORAD Keeps Eye on the Sky COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. – We were deep inside Cheyenne Mountain, buried beneath thousands of feet of solid granite designed to protect us from nuclear holocaust.NORAD Keeps Eye on...
‘Remember We’re Here’
‘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 collective might of our armed services, 250 million Americans...
