Bruce Atchison began writing CD and cassette reviews for various
electronic music fan magazines, on an amateur bases, in 1989. He also contributed articles to the Transport Canada Airports Group
staff news letter, Input, during the early nineties.
After being placed on disability because of a worsening eye condition, a work councillor suggested that Bruce try freelance
writing as a profession. In spite of being almost blind, and dealing with the limitations of adaptive equipment, he has had
articles published in such widely divergent publications as New Age Journal, Monitoring Times, Spilled Milk, Teak Roundup, West
Word, Absolute Write, Upper Room, Miquelon Lake Summer Times, Dialogue, and The Blindman Valley Horizon.
Bruce's first book, When a Man Loves a Rabbit: Learning and Living With Bunnies, is a memoir of his up-close-and-personal discoveries about rabbits and their private lives. In this book, he reveals little-known facts about
bunnies. For example, Bruce relates how these creatures are fastidious groomers, they can be litter-trained, and have a
startling ability to get into mischief. Brutally honest, he tells of his failures and successes throughout an eight year
period spent in the company of his long-eared friends.
Bruce's passion for rabbits even influenced his electronic music compositions. In 1998, he released an album called Lagomorph
(the family of animals to which hares, pikas, and bunnies belong) with titles named after the word "rabbit" in various human
languages. Bruce followed up with Lagomorph 2 the next summer, continuing in the same theme.
Bruce published a second memoir called Deliverance from Jericho: Six Years
in a Blind School. This book recounts
his experiences at a school for the blind in the mid-sixties, a time when disabled children were segregated from public schools.
Read the article
on Bruce in the Edmonton Sun.
Bruce
Atchison
