Regular Bacon contributor Monica McDougall (far left) recently spent “the most magical week” dove hunting in Argentina. Her husband and sons enjoyed the hunt, while she and daughter Ellie fell in love with the land and the people. Their happiest moments…
Continuing in our series of Bacon Bits – tiny reviews of terrific books – today’s bloody good read is The Transcriptionist: A Novel, by Amy Rowland. The narrator becomes obsessed with the story of a woman who seems to have committed suicide…
Regular Bacon contributor Elizabeth Lamar is just back from a family fishing trip to the east cape of the Baja peninsula in Mexico, “a great family destination… IF your family likes to fish just about every day,” she says, laughing….
Please join me for a four-week series of bacon bits – very short takes on top-notch current reads. Summer seems the season for tiny reviews of terrific books! Today’s Featured Read: Lost for Words, by Edward St. Aubyn. Quick Summary:…
Brent Moody might be your surgeon if you’ve got skin cancer. He might be your Sunday school teacher if you’re a kid at First Presbyterian Church. If you buy art, you might purchase something he’s painted at local art shows….
If you meet Eileen, you’ll notice two things first. She is really tall, and she is really gorgeous! She won’t intimidate you for long, though! You can tell very quickly that Eileen is a young woman who truly enjoys getting to know…
You can tell when Todd Jones enters the room. All of a sudden, things get livelier. People are more animated and warmer. They’re following his lead. You won’t see many yawns when he’s in the pulpit most Sundays at First Pres! …
That novel is the story of your life – from childhood’s awakenings, miseries, and joys, through the muddle in the middle, to the moment you breathe your last. Every life has the deepest, truest, most fundamental requirement of a story:…
Regular Bacon contributor Laura Cooper recently returned from a family trip to Italy, where her army of three sons and a husband were equal parts barbarians at the gate and consumers of gelato. Today, she thinks about the American abroad, historically speaking. For Laura’s bio and…