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I hope Black Friday finds you cozy at home!  I’m impressed with your bravery if you’re headed to the mall, particularly Mean Hills.  The ladies mean business, especially about that parking space.  My advice to you:  concede the space and save…

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Pepper was helping me get ready for company.  She believes that Skinny Pop should be available in multiple locations, as should the newspaper, conveniently shredded.  She made sure there was toilet tissue in every room.  “Pumpkin pie is great –…

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Louise Bryan was losing sleep.  It wasn’t any one thing.  I promise you she’s not complaining, but sometimes the stresses of parenthood, other family and volunteer obligations, and her work at Vanderbilt add up.  In the dark hours of the night…

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There’s nothing like a radiant young woman expecting a baby to remind you of life’s wonder and hope.  Elizabeth Sherrard exudes good health and good sense in addition to joyful anticipation.  She’s all grown up but still seems awfully young…

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Regular Bacon contributor Laura Cooper and husband John have spent much of the fall “coming to grips with the (happy, but still!) fact that our boys are really growing up.  It can’t be said at all that we have small…

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Carrington Fox is a fearless urban farmer with a microflock of chickens by day, a renowned food writer for the Nashville Scene by night.  She’s just “Mom” to three sons ages eight, nine, and eleven, all attending University School of Nashville.  You…

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Daphne Butler’s big, warm laugh is sweeter than a summertime peach.  It’s warmer than a steaming mug of hot chocolate on a snowy day.  It’s more colorful than the changing leaves in fall, and more cheerful than the first daffodils of spring.  That…

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Todd Jones is a man of faith and a man of action.  This weekend he was also a man about town, accompanying lovely wife Connie to the Nashville Public Library’s Literary Award Gala and Patrons Party.  The back-to-back evenings honoring…

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So said Perry Wallace on March 8th, 1970, to young Tennessean reporter Frank Sutherland the day after Wallace played his last basketball game at Vanderbilt.  That interview made front page news the day the story ran:  Wallace had been a…

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