“I love the warmth and flexibility of summer!” says Bacon contributor Carolyn Hall. “Case in point, I had a free night last week while my husband took our daughter to a college visit at his alma mater. I convinced a good…
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One recent Saturday morning when I was out of town our lawn service came by. My husband let Pepper out while one of the men trimmed things up with a weed eater. She went berserk, my husband reported, attacking the…
Mothers do have ideas about how things should be. In her new memoir Dimestore: A Writer’s Life, Lee Smith (Fair and Tender Ladies, Oral History, Ordinary Grace) shares some of the things her mother taught her: “I was not to…