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Make a Paper Chain. Book Launch Countdown!

November 18, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner 11 Comments

My sister and I made paper chains to count down to any exciting occasion. Gracie Lee and her little sister made paper chains, too. With so many things to count down, including lots of family birthdays, I decided it was high time I reinstitute the paper chain countdown. I’m starting today and counting down to the launch date of The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee.

January 28, 2016 is only 71 days, y’all!

This chain is fancier than the regular construction paper ones my sister and I made. Cooler paper choices = one of the benefits of being an adult in 2015 compared to a child in the seventies. I was a little bit ecstatic to use all the paper scraps I’ve been saving.

making a paper chain

May 30, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner 14 Comments

photo courtesy of morgueFile

The old ladies were right, as old ladies often are.

They crocheted and drank Folgers throughout the afternoon while lamenting the passage of time as though this was a bad thing.

For me, time crawled. Days blended together imperceptibly, a string of sameness.

I was forever counting down to something—Christmas Eve, minutes until the bell rang, my next birthday when life would be exciting and different by the mere advancement of age. Twelve would be better than eleven… It had to be. Wasn’t that how life worked?

Did the simple process of counting down, stop time? Like Nana always said, a watched pot never boils… Even so, my sister and I tracked slow-motion days with hand-made, multi-colored construction paper chains sticky with Elmer’s glue. Elmer’s glue was an important part of the fun.

With each broken link, we celebrated. One link, one day…until finally the special day arrived. And then z-o-o-o-o-m, it was over. Just like that. With no need for a chain, lake days sped by, Christmas break ended in a flash.

Maybe it was the chain that slowed things.

Maybe we all better start making paper chains.

talya

“Time is a game played beautifully by children.”
― Heraclitus, Fragments

Musical Pairing:

No Time, The Guess Who

Sunday Letter: 09.04.22

September 4, 2022 By Talya Tate Boerner 15 Comments

Dear Sunday Letter friends,

Are you as excited as I am that September is here? I treasure the change of seasons, and yes I’m counting down to the first day of fall. Nineteen days!

I’m also counting down to Bernice Runs Away which launches on October 1. Twenty-seven days!

You know what Gracie Lee Eudora Abbott would do? She would make a construction paper chain to count down to both of these important dates.

Maybe I will too.

Honestly, I can’t believe my next book is almost here. Sometimes this writing and editing and publishing endeavor smothers me, feeling like such an impossible, exhausting thing, and then—💥—it all comes together as it should. Not without a little hair pulling and a lot of second guessing, mind you.

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