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Memoirs

When I’m feeling melancholy I write about memories. Some happy, some sad.

Sunrise outside window

📝Emotionally Fossilized

Posted on June 19, 2026July 2, 2026 by Doug Bayliss

I always feel like everything has to be done now, like the deadline has already passed.

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Billy & Mia eating worms.

📝I Think I’ll Eat Some Worms

Posted on May 18, 2026July 2, 2026 by Doug Bayliss

Those words stung a little bit. I didn’t know if it was a joke, because it was kind of funny eating worms and all, but it came off as pushing away. 

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shar-pei dogs

📝A Family, 3 Dogs, and Lissencephaly

Posted on April 5, 2026July 2, 2026 by Doug Bayliss

Selected stories to show how a child with a disability, Lissencephaly, did not slow us down.

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Our daughter Catherine and Erica

📝Erica Michelle Bayliss — A Life Remembered

Posted on March 24, 2026July 2, 2026 by Doug Bayliss

When Erica came into our lives, nothing unfolded the way we had imagined. The path was harder, more complicated, and often overwhelming.

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Two sedans to park outside of an office building

📝Winter, 1980

Posted on February 14, 2026July 2, 2026 by Doug Bayliss

An essay about work, authority, and the systems that continue operating regardless of consequence. Set during the winter of 1980,

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📝A Productive Year in Review: 2025

Posted on January 11, 2026July 2, 2026 by Doug Bayliss

2025 was about consistency. Showing up, making small improvements, and staying focused. It made all the difference.

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Number one Penn State football fans

📝In Memory of My Father Ron Bayliss

Posted on December 14, 2025July 2, 2026 by Doug Bayliss

Ronald Walter Bayliss December 14, 1933 – January 15, 2018 “Run, you rascal!”— My dad, at every Penn State game Today would have been Dad’s 92nd birthday This is a day to honor both celebration and quiet remembrance. Some of my fondest memories are the simple, joyful ones. I think of weekends at Penn State…

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an open journal on a table

📝Songs Unfinished

Posted on September 30, 2025July 2, 2026 by Doug Bayliss

At its heart, this is a story about resilience that does not announce itself. It is found in small acts of endurance, in creativity that persists despite limitation

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Future author Doug Bayliss at Sky Manor Airport. [1962] #skymanor
sky manor airport circa 1960
Inspiration for "Little Wings, Big Dreams," my first book! Sky Manor Airport was owned by my grandparents Robert & Naomi Theisz.

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