Secret Life of Teenage Geeks

By Piper Bayard Prime time TV would have us thinking teens are all a bunch of shallow losers who can’t think past their next freakish vampire/werewolf/angel/superhero boyfriend/girlfriend or their next gossip fix. Being the mother of teenage geeks, though, I can...

Bayard & Holmes Youth Achievement Cyber-Hug 2013

By Jay Holmes In order to give my tired brain a break from the often painful world of foreign policy, I did some recreational reading today. The vacation from our world’s wars and genocides did me good. I found some great information about a couple of young people who...

Unemployment, a.k.a. The Road

By Piper Bayard I’m reading The Road. Not only is it making me seriously consider becoming a vegetarian, it’s striking me as an extreme form of the personal apocalypse a lot of folks are facing right now. Unemployment. Viggo Mortensen and Kodi Smit-McPhee...