Roger Moore, Associate Dean and Senior Lecturer in English at Vanderbilt, has mixed feelings about Vanderbilt in spring. “The campus is of course at its most beautiful right now, so I am enjoying my walks to and from work. There’s definitely some…
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Today’s post by Friend of Bacon Laura Cooper will make you think about the particular fantasy you’re buying when you spring for La Mer. But she’s not giving up on dreams coming true. From Laura: Fantasy can be tricky. It can…
“If life always went exactly as planned, there would be no stories. If you look at it that way, a crappy day can be the greatest gift,” writes Sine Thieme at her terrific blog, JoburgExpat, and I can just hear…
Holly Conner – in a bold and creative move – duck taped her younger brother Forrest to the door jamb when he was considerably smaller. It seems he’s forgiven her, though: “Holly is the most loving, caring, supportive and adoring…
Frighteningly perfect children populate some of today’s most acclaimed literary fiction, from All the Light We Cannot See to The Goldfinch. Friend of Bacon Laura Cooper asks why in a brilliant article published today in The Washington Post. She has…
Betsy and Ridley Wills have serious street cred in 37205. Generational. They could have kept things cozy, Belle Meade style, but playing it safe just isn’t the way they roll! Ridley started his own company (you’ve heard of it), and…
Kobie Pretorius lives a Nashville life to the fullest. Urban chickens in the backyard? Yes! Tennis skirts in the closet? Yes! Lots of volunteer work at University School of Nashville and elsewhere, two great kids growing up fast, a husband to…
Jennifer Frist has a quiet confidence and says she’s a “behind the scenes” girl – but I’m not sure. I see a bold streak in her, too! She and Billy renovated an extraordinary home a few years ago and filled…
My dear friend Caroline Shockley and I were talking about Valentine’s Day. Caroline, you may know, is the mother of two very active boys who have kept her at the playground (initially), and later, pool, track, baseball field and basketball…