When Kroger featured decorative ceramic pumpkins outside this week, I was aghast. Then offended! Then resigned. It’s not like I’ve never seen a decorative pumpkin in August before, but it’s always jarring. Summer is still sizzling in Nashville and at Bacon! This…
Fiction
“Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” feels like the Cliff Notes of the book I really want to read. Imagine Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone – or any other book in the series – with everything redacted except the…
Today’s Bacon features a timelessly elegant Nashville couple, Steve and Carolyn Taylor, reflecting on ancestors, historic castles, the Wizarding World of Harry Potter, and all things good about summer! Steve cuts a fine figure in a tuxedo and entertains the…
You know a book is good when you don’t put it down during an 8-hour flight. Today’s post features that novel plus 2 others that are hot off the press and promise to be thrilling reads for the steamy days ahead….
Back in the day, the end of July was still the middle of summer. No more! But summer’s still going strong at Bacon, with four more Summer Reading specials to finish out the series. Today’s post features Louis and Karlen…
David Ewing and Alice Randall bring star power to any gathering – Nashville luminaries much in demand for their wit and intellect, their kindness and sparkle. David is a ninth-generation Nashvillian, an attorney, and one of Nashville’s most knowledgeable local…
Rich Maradik is an entrepreneur and a family man, sometimes on the road for business and just as often on the road with one of his children for college visits, golf tourneys, or arts camp. He served as a page…
Today’s Bacon Blast features the faces, voices, and summer reading choices of thirteen terrific Chapter 16 writers. I’ve already chosen three new books from their recommendations and had a hard time stopping there! You won’t want to miss Chapter 16’s new website, just…
Today’s post checks in with Todd and Kate McKee on summer pleasures, summer memories, and summer reading! Todd McKee is, among other things, a craftsman of words and of wood. He’s an attorney by day and a woodworker by night (or…