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Sunday Letter: 11.21.21 ~ Gobble Gobble!

November 21, 2021 By Talya Tate Boerner 14 Comments

Sunday Letter

Dear Sunday Letter friends,

This morning my heart is full of gratefulness, and I want to share it with you.

I just returned from a weekend nature-writing retreat at Rockvale Writers’ Colony in middle Tennessee. What a fabulous three days! I’ll probably write more about my experiences there, but for now I’ll just say I came home with a big dose of Vitamin N (Vitamin Nature). The owner of the colony referred to the experience as soul-keeping, and that’s exactly what it was, taking a little time to tend to myself, to immerse myself in nature, to just be.

You know, we go to the doctor to get our bodies tuned up. We try to eat right and get a little physical exercise, but how often do we do those things that really soothe our minds and souls?

Well, I intend to do a better job of it.

Now, as we approach Thanksgiving, I am ever-so-thankful for the way fall came on slowly this year, so slowly I worried we wouldn’t see fall color at all. And, as the leaves began to turn, they kept turning and turning until the landscape around our house truly became glorious. The color may even hang on until Thanksgiving.

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Sunday Letter: 10.31.21

October 31, 2021 By Talya Tate Boerner 6 Comments

Sunday Letter

Dear Sunday Letter readers,

Happy Halloween! I’m glad we have nice weather on tap for Halloween tonight because we have lots of candy we need to give away to trick-or-treaters. I sure don’t need bags of chocolate hanging around our house—it wouldn’t last very long.

I can’t tell you how many ‘fun size’ peanut M&Ms I’ve eaten in the past week.😱

Do you typically have trick-or-treaters come to your house? Do you hand out candy or risk a trick?

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Sunday Letter: 10.10.21

October 10, 2021 By Talya Tate Boerner 8 Comments

Sunday Letter

Hey, Sunday Letter friends!

It’s been a minute or two.

I’ve been having a heck of a time balancing my writing lately. I’m approaching the editing deadline for my next book (yay!), and so I’ve been spending most of my time working on that. Also, a couple of other article deadlines have jumped up and tagged me on the shoulder. I say this to excuse the state of my recent blog posting. Or lack of blog posting, I should say.

And then there’s college football—I can’t get anything done on game day! Mercy, yesterday was filled with exciting games won and lost in the last seconds; I cheered through several of them. Two things are for sure in college football: 1) any team can win on any given day; and, 2) home team advantage is alive and 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 (Now Available!)

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