Last weekend, my husband and I slipped into the back row of a Thanksgiving chapel service at the boarding school our daughters attend. Hundreds of students loudly filled the underground stone chapel, the boys in their coats and ties and the…
My cousin Christina Apperson could grace the cover of a romance novel. It’s true. She’s got the long, flowing chestnut locks, a figure to die for, and I’ll just go ahead and say it – sultry eyes. I’m afraid she…
Every once in a while I accidentally run two Bacon posts in a day. (Darn. I feel like such an idiot when that happens.) Today is different. Today’s second post is breaking news for readers. The National Book Award Winners were…
Today, friend of Bacon Laura Cooper takes on on a book that’s received a tremendous amount of attention lately, A Little Life, by Hanya Yanagihara. She’s not as enchanted as some, and I can see why. From Laura: Who doesn’t love book prizes?…
Everything I know about pioneers I learned from Little House on the Prairie. Or at least everything I remember. The Little House series and the show mix and mingle in my mind, leaving a deep impression of pioneer struggles (the grasshoppers!),…