by Piper Bayard | Sep 11, 2014 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard Thirteen years ago today, a generation of little boys and girls learned that there are evil people in this world whose only desire is to kill everyone they cannot control. Even as children, it ignited a passion in them to protect the innocents. Those...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 30, 2014 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard Meet Parker. We got Parker from the Humane Society when I had a feeling there was a dog waiting there that would be a perfect fit for our family. Parker had been taken back twice because he doesn’t play well with others. He...
by Piper Bayard | Jun 23, 2014 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard Long ago, Holmes and I discussed the fact that we’re no good to each other dead. As we age, we have to work a little harder at that not getting dead thing than we used to. So we agreed that our bare minimum fitness requirements demand that we walk at...
by Piper Bayard | May 25, 2014 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard America is not a location. America is an ideal. It is the dream of a country where the government answers to the people, and not the other way around. Because America is an ideal, Americans are not born. Rather, America, itself, is born anew with each...
by Piper Bayard | Jan 20, 2014 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard Remember all of those Jeff Foxworthy “you might be a redneck if” jokes? I didn’t know I was a redneck until Jeff Foxworthy identified me. “If you’ve ever honked at chickens while pulling into your driveway . . .” Didn’t everybody? “If there are more...
by Piper Bayard | Dec 31, 2013 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard I turned fifty in 2013, and in my life, I’ve learned that growing old sucks. Small strains take months to heal, old wounds are new aches and pains, and where the young woman I was had the world for a smile, the woman I am now knows the treasures only...
by Piper Bayard | Sep 18, 2013 | Life and Death, News
Until last week, I didn’t know what a flood looked like. In fact, before this past week, I had the complacent notion that the world would stay pretty much as it was when I was born, at least for the duration of my time on it. After all, how often does a 500-Year...
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