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a simple Lavender Nosegay

July 28, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner

make a lavender nosegay

Nosegay is one of those silly sounding words that back in seventh grade would have given my best friend and me the extreme giggles. During those Keiser Junior High days, everything was extraordinarily hilarious and something as simple as a funny word (such as nosegay) would often push us over the edge earning us a trip to the principal’s office for classroom disruption. I call those the Giggle Box Years. And though I may seem to be rambling, I do plan to tie all this together, you’ll see if you keep reading. Promise.Continue Reading

If she could have chosen any life…

July 27, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner

If she could have chosen any life, her mornings would have begun on a small screened porch surrounded by trees and clover and breezes off the lake.

With strong, hot coffee,

a favored paperback

and thoughts to fill a page.

view from the screened porch

If she could have chosen any life, her afternoons would have begun with a worn gravel road,Continue Reading

My view from today.

July 24, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner

my view from here is like the top of the Ferris wheel.Today is significant. If I were to draw a line in the sand to separate yesterday from tomorrow, today would be that line. The end of a part of my life. The beginning of something new. My view from today is much like the view from the top of a Ferris wheel.

Today, our youngest is moving to Denver to start his new job. His career. The rest of his life. Today truly feels like the first empty nest day. The college years merely provided practice and time to become accustomed to cooking less for supper.

Now things get real.Continue Reading

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Hi! I'm Talya Tate Boerner. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

THE ACCIDENTAL SALVATION OF GRACIE LEE (2016)

GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

BERNICE RUNS AWAY (2022)

THE THIRD ACT OF THEO GRUENE (coming 2025)

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