by Eddie Pipkin
I was at a wedding in Tennessee last weekend, in the Great Smoky Mountains to be precise, and if you’ve been blessed to visit that glorious part of the world, you will know that not only is the natural landscape beautiful, but the local culture has its own distinctive flavor. Among other things, those people really, really like their black bears. Seemingly every rental cabin on every mountain lane features a design motif that in some way highlights bears. In our weekend rental cabin, bears were everywhere. I am not exaggerating. They were in every room in multiple iterations. It caused a conundrum. Can there be such a thing as too many bears?
To solve the mystery for you, YES. There can be too many bears.
There were so many black bears in the cabin we had rented that the effect became comical. It beca