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...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 21, 2013 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard Do you ever get ticked off at the strangers around you for doing things you think are thoughtless, rude, or stupid? Yep, I do it, too. So today I’m going to fess up. I’m the one who spends three minutes balancing the grocery cart in just the right...
by Piper Bayard | Aug 7, 2013 | Life and Death
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...
by Piper Bayard | Jul 4, 2013 | Life and Death
By Piper BayardAt this time in America’s history, partisanship is more heated than it has been since the Civil War. We are regularly smacked in the face by evidence that both major political parties put their own interests above the interests of our nation....
by Piper Bayard | Jun 3, 2013 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard Bumper stickers. Sort of like Bathroom Readers for the road. I wonder sometimes if people even think about what they put on their cars. Take this popular one, for example: Why stop with random acts of kindness? When did the goal for kindness get...
by Piper Bayard | May 22, 2013 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard My teenage baby had her first life setback this week in the form of a blown out knee. Physically, her path will not be a mystery. Surgery, rehab, and a new talent for predicting the weather. Emotionally, she will learn that we can’t control everything,...
by Piper Bayard | May 12, 2013 | Life and Death
By Piper Bayard It’s children who deliver mothers into the world. Before children, we are daughters, girlfriends, and wives. But until we love a child, we are not mothers. The part of us that grows into a mother remains a child until a child becomes more...
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