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Waiting

May 7, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Wordless Wednesday

annabelle

“Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.” -John Grogan, Marley and Me

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Musical Pairing:

Waiting for a Girl Like You, Foreigner

One Ordinary Day

May 2, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

The Writers’ Post Week #77 Prompt: Rewind, Pause or Fast Forward? – If you could change anything in your life, which button would you press?
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When my time on earth is done, I would like to re-wind to one ordinary summer day at the lake when my children were young.  Not to change a single moment, but to re-live and remember each second, to make sure I take every detail with me. 

To stroll with them along the rocky shoreline collecting shells, to see them hold hands and spring into the cold water from the dock, to feel the warm sunshine on my face, to hear my name called out before bedtime….all simple, yet special things.

When my time on earth is done, all I hope for is that my kids are happy and healthy and have learned to appreciate how incredibly intoxicating ordinary can be.

Tate and Kelsey

“Do small things with great love.” 
― Mother Teresa

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Musicial Pairings:

Somewhere Over the Rainbow


Y is for Yellow

April 29, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Yellow is just not your color, Momma always told me.

It wasn’t that she was being rude. She was only trying to save me from looking washed out and jaundiced.

None of the Tate girls can wear yellow, she said. It clashes with our mousy hair and freckly skin.

 But Momma, Momma, this is key.
I love yellow. It’s sooooo me.

What about to school? You see,
a Keiser YELLOWjacket, I shall be…

Could I, should I, late at night?
No never, ever. It won’t look right!

The color of summer sunshine, yellow is lemony fresh clean. I’m all about clean…

My kitchen is painted happy yellow. Sweet broom and yellow bearded iris fill my flower beds. Yet rarely do I wear the color…

As was typical in our family, Daddy never got the memo about our yellow problem. During his mid-life crisis, before I was even old enough to drive, he bought me my first car.

A could-it-be-any-brighter(?) YELLOW corvette.

Oh the irony.

talya

Look at the stars. Look how they shine for you, and everything you do. They were all yellow. —Coldplay, Yellow.

Musical Pairing:

Yellow Submarine, The Beatles
almost done!
Y is for Yellow.
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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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