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…
Fiction
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…
It’s not often that I read three books focusing on race in the span of a couple of months, and this was time well spent. I’ll describe all three, but if you just want the take-home (because April is a…
Arya’s got nothing on Regular Bacon Contributor Laura Cooper. They both know how to place the dagger. From Laura: When I was in junior high, I had a girl-crush on a classmate named Ann. I was over-tall and scratchy, in…
On Monday, April 11th, Beverly Cleary turned 100. “She is still her good old self, telling us, for example, that she didn’t turn a hundred on purpose and that she will be celebrating with carrot cake – just the kind of thing you’d expect her…
Please join me this Tuesday night, April 12th at 7:30 to hear John Lavey live at Zanie’s! He’s reading a story as part of That Time of the Month, a show created by his friend Melanie Vare in Los Angeles for funny female storytellers (and one token dude)….
Regular Bacon contributor Martha Ivester has singlehandedly brought traffic to a standstill all over town. We love her anyhow! She’s 9 months into her new job tearing up streets to build out Google Fiber in Nashville (as City Manager for…