Dear Sunday Letter friends,
Today I’m send you a quick Mother’s Day message with greetings from Lake Norfork!
I’m at the lake with my mother and sister and niece for a few days. Continue Reading
ramblings from an arkansas farm girl
Dear Sunday Letter friends,
Today I’m send you a quick Mother’s Day message with greetings from Lake Norfork!
I’m at the lake with my mother and sister and niece for a few days. Continue Reading
We come to the lake and talk to the water
with stones we skim across her glassy surface,
As we dangle bare feet from the edge of the dock
our eyes scan her familiar coves,
looking for evidence
of our younger
selves.
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