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Hemingway Connection

June 7, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner 15 Comments

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Waiting to board the plane, we stood nearly touching. Everyone queued up in typical Southwest Airlines kindergarten style, according to boarding pass number order.
 
I was B1.
 
He was B2.
 
B3 and B4 stood directly behind us wearing matching orange travel pillows around their necks like life preservers.
 
Is Little Rock your home? B2 asked B3.
 
Yes, thank goodness. We will never ever EVER go back to Austin. It was just too weird!
 
Yes too weird. B4 echoed.
 
B2 glanced at me and shrugged.
 
I rolled my eyes and noticed the time. The flight was already thirty minutes late leaving Dallas.
The Austin haters yammered on oblivious to other B-numbered boarders standing single-file. They clutched paper sacks of Dunkin Donuts like carry on bags. Sugary sweetness mixed with the awkward closeness and made me nauseous. Plus I had consumed too much coffee.
Is Little Rock your final destination? B2 asked while scanning his iPhone for text messages. Scruffy facial hair, maybe two days’ growth, gave him a relaxed yet cool appearance.

No, I’m headed to Piggott.

Piggott? He had dimples.

Yes, Piggott.

What’s in Piggott?

The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum. I’m going to a writer’s retreat.

As in Ernest Hemingway?

Yes. Ernest Hemingway’s second wife was from Piggott, Arkansas. After they married, he spent time there and even wrote a portion of A Farewell to Arms in his barn studio.

Really? 


Yes, really.

Rummaging through the duffle, he pulled out a worn paperback. I started reading this a few days ago…

talya

written at the Hemingway-Pfeiffer Creative Writers’ Retreat, June, 2013. 

“It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end.” 
― Ernest Hemingway

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Filed Under: Arkansas, Life, Writing Tagged With: A Farewell to Arms, Arkansas, Ernest Hemingway, Hemingway-Pfeiffer, Piggott

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Comments

  1. Sandra Tyler says

    June 7, 2013 at 3:10 am

    that’s really cute and funny. well done.

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      June 7, 2013 at 3:11 am

      Thank you!

      Reply
  2. Corinne Rodrigues says

    June 7, 2013 at 4:59 am

    What a coincidence! Glad you’re enjoying the retreat, Talya!

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      June 7, 2013 at 9:26 am

      It is fabulous Corinne!

      Reply
  3. Dorothy Latimer Johnson says

    June 7, 2013 at 8:24 am

    You do a great job relating overheard conversation!

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      June 7, 2013 at 9:26 am

      Thanks Dorothy!

      Reply
  4. Gary Henderson says

    June 7, 2013 at 8:45 am

    Synchronicity! 🙂

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      June 7, 2013 at 9:26 am

      :))

      Reply
  5. Robert Irby says

    June 7, 2013 at 9:02 am

    That’s the oldest pick up in the book. Lots of guys carry around a copy of A Farewell to Arms just to get chicks, I think. Glad you didn’t fall for it.

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      June 7, 2013 at 9:27 am

      I’m too sharp for that old trick Bob!

      Reply
  6. Bryan Jones says

    June 7, 2013 at 2:44 pm

    Only you could have these conversations! That’d put goosebumps on me!

    Reply
    • Talya Tate Boerner says

      June 9, 2013 at 2:30 am

      I had goosebumps too!

      Reply
  7. Barbara Tate says

    June 5, 2015 at 10:14 am

    You’re good.n

    Reply
  8. Barbara Tate says

    June 5, 2015 at 10:14 am

    Excuse the “n”.

    Reply
  9. gina says

    June 5, 2015 at 11:00 am

    Oh….I’m a sucker for dimples. 😉

    Reply

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