Friend of Bacon Louise Bryan kindly sent me the link to this terrific post, which I’m so happy to share with you today! Maybe you’ll find a peach on the list, too! I’m picking The Art of Fielding, by Chad Harbach, based…
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In all the busy-ness of Christmas, Pepper found time to nose around a book I left lying around – Anne Lamott’s latest, Small Victories: Spotting Improbable Moments of Grace. “I really like this book,” she told me last night as…
“If you wish to achieve Beatle-level success in your field, you must first learn to think like a Beatle,” write authors George Cassidy and Richard Courtney in their terrific book, Come Together: The Business Wisdom of the Beatles. Preposterous, right?…
Have you ever noticed that the more you have to do, the more you get done? It is simple and brilliant: just keep adding things to your calendar and your to-do list. Somehow they all get done. Until of course…
Let’s dream of the perfect cocktail party this holiday season, discerning reader! Little black dresses float round about, and gentlemen sport their festive ties. One’s champagne flute is always full – and every conversation is short and sweet. Why get…
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…
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 –…
Keith Meacham, co-chair of this year’s Literary Award Gala, read Presumed Innocent on a beach trip in 1988. It was her first Scott Turow novel, and she was in for a surprise. “It must have just come out in paperback around then,…
Bags of Halloween candy already bought and eaten? Check. (Milky Ways get me every time. Followed in short order by 100 Grands and Twix.) If you need something else to satisfy your sweet tooth – and spook you a little, too…