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Connect the Crazy Dots

December 20, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Take a look at the following list of random things.

Can you guess what they have in common?

squirrels
driving a car
brilliant sunset
gallon of white paint
a lagoon
Hillary Clinton
camera
eggs
skyscraper
shelves and shelves of Little Golden Books
installing a kitchen countertop
rocks
an easel
pine trees
Craig Barnett
moving boxes
Lady Gaga
Arkadelphia

Give up?

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Answer: These things/people were all in my dreams last night!

Do you have crazy vivid dreams?

talya

Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Dreams, if they’re any good, are always a little bit crazy. – Ray Charles

Musical Pairing:

Dreams, The Cranberries

Time Travel Face Serum!

December 16, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Last week in my holiday Birchbox, I received a sample of Skin & Co Truffle Serum. (If you don’t know about Birchbox, you should. Click HERE.) Skin & Co Truffle Serum claims to plump the skin with hydration, fight free radicals, and reduce fine lines and wrinkles. In short, it’s described as a miracle product containing pure extracts of Tuber Melanosporu, a truffle extract with one of the most potent anti-oxidants ever unearthed.

Wow.

Sounds like something whipped up in Herbology Class at Hogwarts…

I used my new wonder cream yesterday.

I LOVED the velvety texture, and after only one day, I immediately felt Forty Years Younger.

Forty Years.

But not from the way it made my skin feel or look.

From the smell.

In 1970, Santa brought me a tiny doll who lived inside a plastic flower. When I opened the petals to her home, she was hidden inside with arms outstretched and a smile on her cherubic face. Her hair smelled like violets. Or truffle extract?

I don’t recall her name and have not thought of her in decades—yet the aroma of this lotion unlocked a flood of memories.

Oneeda Petal People

For a moment, I was eight years old again.

Time travel should be added to the serum’s list of amazing results.

talya

Grace Grits and Gardening

Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

Musical Pairing:

I Want You Back, The Jackson 5

Alabama – Auburn. The dark side of defeat.

December 3, 2013 By Talya Tate Boerner

Have we truly reached the point where society values the BCS bowl race over the human race? Both can be rather barbaric, but death threats to the Alabama kicker? One fan murders another after the game because she wasn’t upset enough over the loss?

I’m as passionate as the next about college football. My favorite show (after Breaking Bad) is ESPN SportCenter.

But folks, it’s only a game—not to be confused with a video game… The game of life comes with a set of social, moral rules that apparently need to be re-played and re-learned. Losses happen.They just do.

Without losses, wins wouldn’t taste half as sweet. This much I know as a Baylor Bear fan.

We’ve reached a new high low. Truly the dark side of defeat.

talya

Grace Grits and Gardening
Farm. Food. Garden. Life.

“How dreadful…to be caught up in a game and have no idea of the rules.” – Caroline Stevermer