Memories

Lake Girls. Lake Time.

May 24, 2019 By Talya Tate Boerner 8 Comments

Lake Girl, Lake Time

Lake Girls. Lake Trip.

This weekend marks our first lake trip of the year. Our first official trip of summer, not that summer is here yet (but you know what I mean). Now that Momma and Staci are both living in Fayetteville, we are much closer to Lake Norfork. And we can go for long weekends. That was practically impossible to do when we lived in Texas.

So we’ll kick off lake season the way we did when we were all living together on the farm, when Staci and I were kids, before college and marriage and family and careers. We’ll spend the weekend doing many of those same things we always do when we go to the lake. Lake girls are like that.Continue Reading

on this Easter Sunday

April 21, 2019 By Talya Tate Boerner 8 Comments

Happy Easter

On this Easter Sunday 2019, I give you Easter Sunday 1966. Or thereabouts.

Sorry friends, I didn’t write a Sunday Letter this week. But I found this picture taken on Easter morning just before we headed off to Brinkley Chapel (which is Boon Chapel to all you Gracie fans). And I thought I’d talk a little about it. Continue Reading

Love Story to a Mimosa Tree

April 19, 2019 By Talya Tate Boerner 15 Comments

gracie Lee's mimosa

Oh how it hurts my heart to tell you that Gracie Lee’s favorite mimosa tree is dying. Fans of The Accidental Salvation of Gracie Lee probably realize if the tree is Gracie’s favorite, I love it as well. The mimosa tree I’m referencing is in the front yard of her (my) childhood home on the farm.

Sad. Sad. Sad. There are so many memories wrapped around the branches of this tree.

For both Gracie Lee and me.

Can a lifetime of memories suffocate a living thing?

Hope not.Continue Reading