Bill, Hillary, and The Rest of Our Lives
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Anthony Bourdain offered a surprising vision of Nashville in his travel and food show Parts Unknown in October. Tattoos as party favors made the biggest impact in my conversational circles. Is this the Nashville we live in? Well, yes! We also live in…
Thank you, Nobel Committee – we needed something else to divide our nation! Friends, neighbors, and co-workers have been shocked by the Committee’s decision to award Bob Dylan the Nobel Prize for Literature, sparking heated discussions across the land. I…
From Patricia: I used to ride the bus to high school and would sometimes rest my head against the window and imagine how my image would fit into a music video on VH1. I would imagine different songs playing behind…
I have not read this book. I don’t even own it yet. But I read about it this morning, I’ll buy it today, and I’m so excited to share it with you! If you like Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, read…
The family had enjoyed a delicious dinner of formerly frozen butterfly shrimp, and I was cleaning up. Five large shrimp with tails remained on the baking sheet when I stepped away from the kitchen. When I returned, the shrimp and…
December can be stressful. Correction: December is stressful. Give yourself a break here and there! A puppy video. A salted caramel hot chocolate. A book or author event. Today’s Bacon features four thrilling novels plus three upcoming author events in Nashville….
“I fulfilled two dreams this year,” said Joelle Herr, smiling, “opening a bookstore and naming a dog ‘Scooby’.” Scooby joined Maisie, named after the heroine in a Henry James novel, and Her Bookshop joined the ranks of wonderful Nashville booksellers…
Two dogs left their yard seeking adventure. One came home alive. My friend found his family’s other dog (dead) after an extensive search. I was feeling sad and out of sorts at a hotel in New York City and…
Anne Byrn and I were talking about Hummingbird cake, Red Velvet cake, and that famous Carrot cake from the Silver Palate cookbook as we noshed on a scone. “Holidays preserve what the everyday loses,” she suggested. More frighteningly: “Cakes wouldn’t…