Hello all, This is Pierce again. Today, January 14th, is my birthday, and on this day that all of you so generously celebrate my birth, I ask that our thoughts and wishes be with my beautiful and loving mother who, just this evening, left us for the the next great adventure. A simple country girl […]
Someone asked me the other day how my day was going. Their question reminded me of my friend, Chris. His wife, Barbara, told me when he was battling cancer for a second time that he would always respond “any day I am six feet above the ground is a good day.â€Â I chuckled. He always […]
I was out with friends last night for a bite to eat and some good conversation. There were five of us. It occurred to me when I was sitting there that these folks stepped in and out of my life at different times and for different reasons over the past ten years…one stepped back in […]
James Taylor said it all when he sang “You’ve Got a Friend†back in the early 1970s. It is a lucky person indeed that finds a good friend or two along the way. Hard times are always just a little bit better if there is a friend nearby. No matter who it is, man or […]
Recently I wrote about Buford. He was my friend’s basset hound that had been a constant and faithful companion for years. He was tragically hit by a car and killed suddenly.  My friend was devastated. Actually, devastated was not an adequate enough way to describe it. He has been down since then.Â