Talya Tate Boerner's Blog, page 64
February 21, 2016
RIP friend…
Today I intended to write about my weekend and the spring-like weather and how my tulips and daffodils are peekingthrough the soil and how one incrediblething after another happened including I got a new car! And, all these things are true.
Maybe I’ll write about them tomorrow.
But today?
Today, I sit and stare into space trying to wrap my brainaround the devastatingnews I received just hours ago.News that a friend has died.
I attended Baylor with Craig Farrelly. He was in my wedding.
One we...
February 19, 2016
Be like Gracie Lee.
I’ve said it before. There’s a little bit of Gracie Lee in all of us. The good and the bad. The real. The insecure. The humorous.She doesn’t automatically believe everything she’s told by the adults in her life, and although she’s onlyten years old, she worries about things going on in the world, at school, at her own kitchen table.
Sometimes she speaks her mind even when it gets her in trouble.
Other times, she works through problems in her own way.
Although Gracie Lee is part of me, she is...
February 17, 2016
a garland of bicycles
Firstof all, I’m required to tell you this Paper Source bicycle garland was provided to me free of charge, but as usual, opinions are my own. Second of all, since movingto Fayetteville, I’ll admit that I miss being able to pop into Paper Source at Northpark Mall. It was my go-to wonderland for cards and ink stamps and paper of all types. In other words, my paper source. Luckily, Shindig Paperie in Fayetteville carries Paper Source products (on a smaller scale), and thankfully on-line orderin...
February 16, 2016
That Bookstore: It’s a wrap!
THANK YOUto all of Mississippi County and beyond, to everyone who came to my first book signing at That Bookstore in Blytheville. If I used all of my colored pencils and only the best wordsI know, I couldn’t have written a better day. It’s a wrap, but I don’t want to forget a secondof it.
And I have so many folks to thank!
Thank you to friends and family who represented big time—hometown people, high school classmates, teachers, cousins from all over, locals who support local, those who came...
February 12, 2016
there’s no place like home
There’s no place like home, that’s for sure. And oh my goodness, so far my week back home in Mississippi County has been so much fun and a whirlwind of activity. I was invited to speak at the Osceola Rotary Club on Tuesday and they fed me very well. They made me promise to return each time I publish a book, so I best get busy with my next one. Books = Rotary Spaghetti with a side of homemade blackberry cobbler, and that’s a yummy thing.
I metlots of people and saw a few folksI hadn’t seen in...
February 9, 2016
hometown charm
It feels surreal to be home, home on the farm (cue Home on the Range) and see my picture plastered all over town and all over the house. There’s some hometown charm going on, and I owe a big thank you to Jason Stark ofOsceola Printingfor the eye-popping posters and flyers. Not only did he create the design, he handledthe projectfrom start to finish in a matter of hours during a time when I couldn’t think straight. Sometimes the right personappears at exactly the right time. And, yes, a profe...
February 6, 2016
My 1,000th Blog Post: GIVEAWAY and book signing NEWS!
News and a Giveaway: Today marks my 1,000th blog post. That’s so crazy to me. I wrote my first post in January 2012 while sitting atthe Osceola Public Library. I had recently left my Dallas banking job and was thinking about writing a book. And just so you know, there’s lots of “thinking about writing a book” that occursbefore the book actually gets written.
Fast forward to today. I was already planning to blog about my upcoming book signing at That Bookstore in Blytheville when I noticed th...
February 5, 2016
how to make Homemade Play Dough
A few days ago I made homemade play dough. You may find this odd considering I have no young children at home. But I figure since we’re all coloring again(did you get an adult coloring book for Christmas?), we may as well get in a little play dough time, too.
When we were kids, my sister and I loved tomakehomemade play dough. This is NOTone of thosewoe is me I walked barefoot in the snow to school uphill both ways sort of stories. Any time we spent in the kitchen with Momma was fun.Plus, the...
February 3, 2016
Annabelle saw her reflection…
I hate to tell youthis. Yesterday, Annabelle Boerner saw her reflection in the window of the neighborhood skating rink and this morning it feels like winter again. So much for Punxsutawney Phil and his prediction of an early spring.
Here in Northwest Arkansas, the last few springlike days have made me itch to work in the yard. I pickedup a few limbs Sunday afternoon and dragged all my plants into the sun for a good soaking (the ones I’m overwintering in the garage). I worked on my compost a...
February 2, 2016
Recipe for a delicious Book Launch Party
(Note: I was chosen to host a party as part of a #SoapboxInfluenceCampaign andcompensated to do so. Opinions are my own.)
Today I’m excited to share with you my recipe for a book launch party. It’s a failsafe recipe inmy opinion with classicingredients that will culminate in a delicioustime for all. The recipeinvolves Ghirardelli Chocolate and Josh Cellars wine (#ASweetPairing) along with a few other magical elements.
The main ingredient is the hardest to come by. A newly published book. If...
