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! …
That novel is the story of your life – from childhood’s awakenings, miseries, and joys, through the muddle in the middle, to the moment you breathe your last. Every life has the deepest, truest, most fundamental requirement of a story:…
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…
A friend of BaconOnTheBookshelf sent me an urgent message today to share with readers and eaters alike. It was reported in the New Orleans Times Picayune and the Nashville Business Journal blog that Cochon Butcher will be opening in Nashville’s…
If our family is a hive, I like to think of myself as the Queen Bee. As if I’m not disabused of that notion on a daily basis by my teenage daughters, I’ve recently been reminded by a terrific new…