by John D. Pierce | Oct 24, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Our editorial staff is an ignorant bunch. Fortunately, someone with far superior knowledge picked up a copy of our monthly publication recently — and not only read it, but warned us of the embedded dangers associated with our wayward thinking. One...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 8, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce While pounding the payment this afternoon I came upon a rare and wondrous sight: a pick-up football game. In the yard. Without uniforms. No helicopter parents telling the kids what they should or shouldn’t have done on the last play. No constraints of a...
by John D. Pierce | Oct 4, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Today the class of 1978 dedicated a room in the Berry College student center in memory of Dan Biggers who died in 2011. We’ve been pitching in funds for a few years to honor this man who was so good to us. The former dean of students and keeper of...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 22, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Often I need the reminder, “It’s not just what you say but how you say it.” Those of us who tend to be rather direct — and somewhat blunt — in making our points can be correct in our statements yet inadequate in communicating needed sensitivity and...
by John D. Pierce | Sep 11, 2014 | Opinion
By John Pierce Several years ago my phone rang and it was Truett Cathy. He was very unhappy. The state of Georgia, he felt, was keeping at-risk children in bad situations and making it more difficult for him to get them into the secure, loving foster homes that he...
