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Notarized, if you please.
I think any reasonable person would be asking this, as we collectively stare down the barrel of 2022 while bidding 2021 a not so fond...
Jeh Bruce
Dec 31, 20211 min read
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A "ruff" couple of years
As I've mentioned before, I love dogs (if pressed, that even includes my sister's "snot & fart cannon" pug). It is so hard to lose them,...
Jeh Bruce
Dec 25, 20217 min read
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Fa-la-la-la-la...
So a few months ago it was Delta, and now we are confronting Omicron and just as winter takes a firm hold in the northern hemisphere....
Jeh Bruce
Dec 16, 20212 min read
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In Celebration of the Morning Chorus
When the pandemic fully engulfed my town, along with much of the rest of the world in March, 2020, forcing everyone to shelter-in-place,...
Jeh Bruce
Nov 23, 20212 min read
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The Quest Continues...
So, this week I decided to start querying publishers about a novella I wrote some time ago. I'd been encouraged by my then agent to...
Jeh Bruce
Oct 5, 20213 min read
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Jeh Bruce
Aug 11, 20210 min read
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The "Tragedy of the Commons" in the Age of Covid-19
Our collective advances on beating back the corona virus pandemic have taken a massive but not altogether unexpected U-turn in recent...
Jeh Bruce
Aug 5, 20215 min read
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Many Hands (see previous post)
When free water is scarce or non-existent, bees seek hydration in often steep-sided bird baths, horse troughs and swimming pools and many...
Jeh Bruce
Jul 26, 20211 min read
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A Time of Hope...and Despair
George Fredrick Watts, "Hope", 1886 To me, this painting, by the symbolist British painter, George Fredrick Watts (1817-1904), perfectly...
Jeh Bruce
Jul 26, 20213 min read
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A Centurion in the Land of the Fae
"There are places we should not venture; there are peoples we should not confront with our military might...and most of all, there are...
Jeh Bruce
Jul 21, 20215 min read
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Pandora's Pithos, Part Deux
Today my state fully opens, discarding those "annoying" and "overly burdensome" Covid precautions that have kept most of us alive and...
Jeh Bruce
Jun 15, 20216 min read
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On being disposable (not deplorable).
This is Wally, caught in an early morning sunbeam; he's one of five dogs with whom I share my humble abode--all rescue. He's part...
Jeh Bruce
Jun 14, 20214 min read
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Greeks in Space!
The earliest known written story about people traveling to the Moon was by Lucian of Samosata, a Syrian-Greek writer born around 125 CE....
Jeh Bruce
Jun 11, 20211 min read
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All good things...
I haven’t added to my blog for a long time, simply because I haven’t had anything to say that in any remote way has anything to do with...
Jeh Bruce
May 24, 20211 min read
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Reaping the whirlwind
This is a strange and dangerous time to be an author, when, paradoxically, words carry both far more and far less weight than actions....
Jeh Bruce
Jun 26, 20203 min read
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Martin Luther King’s rallying cry to his supporters in Selma Alabama in 1965
Martin Luther King's speech in March, 1965, in in Selma, Alabama, before he led a protest against racial inequality: “The only way we...
Jeh Bruce
Jun 7, 20202 min read
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The official motto for the year, 2020
Anyone who has been alive and conscious for the past six months, and who has a scrap of empathy and integrity still attached to their...
Jeh Bruce
Jun 7, 20203 min read
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2020--Schrödinger's Elpis?
There's a quote from a Peter Capaldi episode of Dr. Who (yes, I'm one of those fans), written by Steven Moffat, one of the most...
Jeh Bruce
Jan 1, 20201 min read
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Farewell to 2019--and good riddance
New years eve--approaching twilight and the Scottie weathervane I bought in remembrance of my beloved Scottie, Indigo. He was the last of...
Jeh Bruce
Jan 1, 20201 min read
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A new platform for my work
I freely admit I am terrible at self-promotion. I simply LOATH it. I was raised in a family where blowing your own trumpet, so to speak,...
Jeh Bruce
Nov 1, 20191 min read
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