This week, I spotted 4 vultures in a tree in our yard, a wandering turkey two houses down, two ducks enjoying a conjugal visit in a local pond, and cardinals and mockingbirds, in particular, establishing territory. I also spotted two…
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At the risk of stating the obvious: good things are happening every day, even as most of us wonder whether we’re facing a best case or worst case scenario, as described by Nicholas Kristof in his New York Times column Sunday….
I’ve been thinking about Melinda Gates and her New York Times bestseller, “The Moment of Lift.” I’ve been thinking about women in community. I’ve been thinking about my friends Wendy Martin, Carrington Fox, and Lawrence Cook. Please join me in…
Lawrence Cook returns to Bacon today with a wonderful selection of her Top 10 Reads for Right Now. Why has she been reading so much lately? I’ll let her tell you…
My husband and I have just finished watching the old “Twin Peaks” (from the 90s). I’m still trying to figure it out. There’s murder, a dwarf, a giant, a woman with superhuman strength (Nadine) – not to mention the woods,…
Sticking a piece of bacon in your drink is a great idea if that drink is a Bloody Mary and there’s a stalk of celery and a sprig of rosemary and a cheese-filled olive close by. It’s all very cozy and…
Regular Bacon contributor Lawrence Blank-Cook hopes to get a trip to Venice out of this post. Good luck, Lawrence! You were an awfully good sport about risking your life on that enormous old sled with your entire nuclear family on it. I bet…
Author Jacqueline Woodson won the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature in 2014 for Brown Girl Dreaming, a memoir in verse about growing up African American in the 1960s and 70s in South Carolina and New York. If you…
Lawrence Cook’s favorite guilty pleasure is reading in bed with the entire family – each with their own book or newspaper. With daughters getting bigger, she knows that this pleasure has an expiration date. On a day with no commitments, she…