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Author Archives: Jerry Johnson
Tick Talk
This has been an especially bad year for ticks. Well, from the tick’s point of view, this would be regarded as an especially good year for ticks, but for humans and dogs it has been a constant nuisance. As if … Continue reading
Musical Scopes
Remember first grade and the vicious, competitive game called Musical Chairs? The rules of the game: children marched to martial music in a circle around an array of chairs, and when the music stopped they had to scramble to find … Continue reading
Trail cameras, grounds blinds, and ladder stands
Logging. That was the problem. And all those skidder roads the loggers had cleared through the woods. Those were the obvious excuses for my dismal hunting results during last year’s deer seasons. We had our woodlands selectively logged, about 45 … Continue reading
Substantial Gus
Gus is large. The largest dog ever to visit our home. I have given him a nickname: Substantial Gus. A cross-bred mix of German shepherd and Collie, Gus weighs seventy-five pounds. He is not quick or agile, but he does … Continue reading
Spiritual journey
From a historical perspective, the spiritual journey is always tragic, for it is a lonely path fit only for individuals rather than for entire societies. – Yuval Noah Harrari from his book Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow Spiritual … Continue reading
Building a box
It was not my intention to write a COVID-19 pandemic story, but all stories are pandemic stories now. Every story is told in the shadow of the coronavirus. We all live with apprehension, unease, a foreboding that something will happen … Continue reading
Online cigars
Did you know that you can order cigars online? That seems obvious, of course, but it never occurred to me. I was under the misapprehension that tobacco products had to be purchased over the counter where a proof-of-age verification was … Continue reading
Curative for April’s COVID-19 blues
UNDER BRIGHT BLUE morning skies Abbey and Gus and I wandered to the west side of the hayfield where I watched a pair of soaring eagles while both dogs dug for gophers. By the time we returned to … Continue reading
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Hunter-gatherer
Photos from Natural History Museum – http://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/ Ancient hunter-gatherers mastered a very wide variety of skills in order to survive, which is why it would be immensely difficult to design a robotic hunter-gatherer. Such a robot would have to know … Continue reading
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Life in the time of pandemic
Don’t want to say “I told you so!” but life in the time of pandemic was predicted in my novel The Executioner’s Face. The ravages of a highly infectious disease, the horrific mortality rates, the implosion of the world’s … Continue reading
Dispatches from a Northern Town 