Unemployment, a.k.a. The Road

by | Jan 17, 2011 | Life and Death

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...

Social Media: Costco or Lost in Space?

by | Dec 6, 2010 | Life and Death

By Piper Bayard I took the plunge into FaceBook and Twitter this week. You computer savvy folks might well ask, “So what?” To that I would answer that when I was growing up, technology was a dishwasher that didn’t have two feet and answer to...