“I don’t think my dog has forgiven me yet for putting him in that blazer and bow tie!” says Nancy Floyd, editor in chief of Nfocus. “Don’t get any ideas,” Pepper warns me. The July issue of Nfocus hits the stands today,…
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Please stop in at Bacon for the next few weeks to enjoy summer interviews with some of Nashville’s most interesting couples – what they’re up to, what they remember about summers past, what they’re reading right now! Richard and Barbara Keith…
In honor of yesterday’s Summer Solstice, I give you today’s Bacon: one of the loveliest poems ever, by e.e. cummings… maggie and milly and molly and may went down to the beach(to play one day) and maggie discovered a shell…
Regular Bacon contributor Laura Cooper has expectations in check for the summer. “I definitely think summer ranks right up there with New Year’s Eve on the expectation-vs-experience, sine-cosine graph,” she observes. That being said, she’s “eager to enjoy the day-to-dayness”…
I have to tell you about The Summer Book, a quietly beautiful little novel first published in 1972 and still in print. The paperback is just the right size for your beach bag, and it’s like the perfect sand dollar…
One recent Saturday morning when I was out of town our lawn service came by. My husband let Pepper out while one of the men trimmed things up with a weed eater. She went berserk, my husband reported, attacking the…
I’m in Delaware, where it’s in the 50s and raining. That being said, it’s a very pleasant 72 in my room at the Hampton Inn, newly remodeled. I’m here for a little while so I bought some lilies and a cheap…
LA, you’ve got nothing on Nashville! Well, there’s the year-round sunshine. Hollywood. The Pacific Ocean. And the books you’ve inspired. I’m forced to concede you might have a few things. Today, Matt Osborne and I feature three books set…
If you’ve got three minutes – literally, three – and need a tiny refreshing break from the Mayhem, check out a newly released interview with Margaret Atwood, part of Nashville Public Television’s revitalized Word on Words series. Margaret Atwood did some…