Generosity of spirit is one of the best things you can find in another person; though it’s hard to define precisely, you know it when you see it. It’s not naïve – but it is kind, and always looks for…
Throw out the pumpkin before it turns black; make way for the turkey and relatives! It’s time to start thinking about cards. And Santa. Trees and menorahs and gifts for the neighbors. Even if you’ve reined in perfectionist tendencies and…
Sometimes a book finds its way to you – or you to it – and unexpectedly your heart is so wrenched and stretched that you aren’t even exactly the same person at the end. (Yes, shades of The Grinch. The good doctor was…
Okay maybe that’s a little strong and not entirely accurate. But don’t be traumatized or misled by the headlines screaming about the Dangers of Bacon! Read a little more carefully to get the full picture. Here’s today’s NPR article, which is balanced and…
If you’ve been reading Bacon this week, you might have made your list of What You Want. Today, behind door #2, is your next question: What Do You Want In Your Marriage? The rules are the same this time around: Nobody else’s…
Bacon Readers: I have an intellectual exercise for you today if you’re game. Make a list of what you want. Read that again: What You Want. Make it the most selfish list you can imagine, independent of any wish to…
Matt sends this post from Chapel Hill, NC, to Bacon readers and music lovers in Nashville (and beyond): Art is honesty; else you have entertainment, or distraction. Entertainment and distraction are welcome, even necessary at times, but there is something so different…
Lately I’ve been sitting on the back porch at dusk watching the bats emerge. First I’ll see one or two skittering high above, then six or eight will appear as if out of thin air. After that, I lose count;…
Arne Weingart made quite an impression at his niece Sherrie Gordon Eisenman’s birthday party. “I have vivid and fond memories of Arne singing folk songs at my party in December of 1965. The playroom was full of wall to wall mattresses,…