Dear Readers, I’m updating the images in the Bacon photo gallery and would love to include YOUR favorite Bacon-flavored photo! As inspiration, here’s my picture from Sunday brunch yesterday: But please – don’t be limited by the plate! Surprise me! Your…
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One idea for 2016 is to play it safe. Keep on doing the same things you’ve always done well. Eat at the same restaurants. Hang out with the same people. Maybe even re-read a few of your favorite books. Or…
At least it feels like it sometimes, when the presents aren’t wrapped and the cookies aren’t made and you drive around the Kroger parking lot for 15 minutes before making your own illegal parking space and the mall parking lot is…
Dear Readers: Please help me out! I’d love to feature some of your favorite books of the year in a “Bacon Holiday Gift Guide” post in early December! If interested, please send a few sentences about the best book you read this…
Don’t get me wrong – I loved the old Nashville, a city big enough for both the Grand Ole Opry and the Swan Ball. Plus a roller coaster! I also love what we’re becoming – a city imagining all kinds of new collaborations…
There’s nothing like a radiant young woman expecting a baby to remind you of life’s wonder and hope. Elizabeth Sherrard exudes good health and good sense in addition to joyful anticipation. She’s all grown up but still seems awfully young…
Pepper wanted to carve a pumpkin. I told her, “No, you’re only 4 months old. I don’t think you’re ready for that.” For a moment, her spirits sank and her head hung low. Then she looked at me with those puppy…
Elizabeth James knows that winning combinations help make perfect parties, having planned one or two of those herself. She’s known far and wide for her extraordinary wedding and party planning skills. Thank you, Elizabeth, for sharing the news about this inspired event!…
My dear husband has been humoring me for a long time. At our otherwise very traditional wedding, I insisted that one of my friends read from a poem by Michelangelo about death. (Said poem really had no place in a nice…