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We Come to the Lake

July 14, 2019 By Talya Tate Boerner 10 Comments

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.

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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

If she could have chosen any life…

July 27, 2015 By Talya Tate Boerner 11 Comments

If she could have chosen any life, her mornings would have begun on a small screened porch surrounded by trees and clover and breezes off the lake.

With strong, hot coffee,

a favored paperback

and thoughts to fill a page.

view from the screened porch

If she could have chosen any life, her afternoons would have begun with a worn gravel road,Continue Reading

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Hi! I'm Talya. Writer, Reader, Arkansas Master Naturalist / Master Gardener, Author of

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GENE, EVERYWHERE: a life-changing visit from my father-in-law (2020)

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