Mary Jo Shankle, my friend and neighbor, keeps it real and makes me laugh. She claims that her special talent is knowing when to turn off the rice. “Seriously, I have an instinct. I am also very good at intuiting…
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Kate Satz drove a pick-up truck to Woodmont Christian Preschool when our children were young and in mother’s day out together. The rest of us safely trundled around in our SUV’s and minivans while Kate rocked the parking lot in that kickass…
University School of Nashville math teacher and all-round great guy Joel Bezaire recommended some summer reading for me a while back: The Housekeeper and the Professor, by Yoko Ogawa. I’ve since learned that Ogawa’s novel is also the Harpeth Hall…
Regular Bacon contributor Monica McDougall (far left) recently spent “the most magical week” dove hunting in Argentina. Her husband and sons enjoyed the hunt, while she and daughter Ellie fell in love with the land and the people. Their happiest moments…
Regular Bacon contributor Elizabeth Lamar is just back from a family fishing trip to the east cape of the Baja peninsula in Mexico, “a great family destination… IF your family likes to fish just about every day,” she says, laughing….
Brent Moody might be your surgeon if you’ve got skin cancer. He might be your Sunday school teacher if you’re a kid at First Presbyterian Church. If you buy art, you might purchase something he’s painted at local art shows….
If you meet Eileen, you’ll notice two things first. She is really tall, and she is really gorgeous! She won’t intimidate you for long, though! You can tell very quickly that Eileen is a young woman who truly enjoys getting to know…
You can tell when Todd Jones enters the room. All of a sudden, things get livelier. People are more animated and warmer. They’re following his lead. You won’t see many yawns when he’s in the pulpit most Sundays at First Pres! …
Regular Bacon contributor Laura Cooper recently returned from a family trip to Italy, where her army of three sons and a husband were equal parts barbarians at the gate and consumers of gelato. Today, she thinks about the American abroad, historically speaking. For Laura’s bio and…