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Sunday Letter: 01.29.23

January 29, 2023 By Talya Tate Boerner

Sunday Letter
Dear Sunday Letter friends,

It has been a week, y’all.

We returned Monday from a weekend trip to Austin just in time for a whopper of a snowfall. The official measurement for Fayetteville was 8.95″. (By the way, I took the bright snowy picture above from my kitchen window at 1:30 a.m.! And we had hours of snowfall after that.)

For real, it was like the heavy snowfalls of my childhood, the wondrous type with fat drifting flakes that accumulated quickly and sent us sledding across fields and making entire snow families in the front yard.

Yes, as much fun as Austin held for us, I was glad we made it home in time for such a magical S N O W.

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Sunday Letter: 02.06.22

February 6, 2022 By Talya Tate Boerner

Sunday Letter

Dear Sunday Letter friends,

Good morning to you! With coffee in hand, I’m ready to tackle another week. How about you?

Last week was a good one for several reasons.

First of all, we had a fabulous snowfall in Fayetteville. Everything unfolded just as our local weather guy predicted, starting with freezing rain on Wednesday afternoon which quickly changed to sleet. While we slept, the snow began falling in earnest. We woke to a quiet magical world with several inches. Then, the snow continued to fall the entire day into night.

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Sunday Letter: 01.16.22

January 16, 2022 By Talya Tate Boerner

Sunday Letter

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Dear Sunday Letter friends,

Have you missed me? I’ve missed myself. Ha. I’ve been a little lost for the past two weeks, but now a fresh new battery lives in my MacBook and all is calm in my world again. It’s crazy how discombobulated I felt without my computer. Oh, I managed to be semi-productive, but things felt out of sync. Like everything these days, the Mac store was running behind on work orders because employees were out sick with Covid.

But here we are again.

This is only my second post in 2022! Craziness.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 (2022)

THE THIRD ACT OF THEO GRUENE (coming 2025)

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