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Please Disregard the Dirt Under my Nails
>I’ve started to look toward corraling my various musings and essays into one place (i.e. this blog), and ran across this one from 2009 that I thought might be worth sharing… Disregard the Dirt...
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Beth’s Arkansas Product List
>I’ve been threatening for ages to launch an Arkansas Products list, because a) I love buying and giving local and b) there is simply no good existing list for those who want to support our home...
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Pollyanna takes on "place-bashing"
>For some reason, this was saved as a draft post earlier this year. Thought I’d go ahead and let it fly… I recently read this post: What Kind of Life Do I Want to Live? from David at...
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Intensely Arkansas: Autumn Rituals
>There is a special time of year that is intensely Arkansas, for lack of better words… and we are in the midst of it. The weeks that surround the peak of fall foliage just have a special feeling...
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With many thanks to Hyalophora cecropia
Tonight, the girls (the almost eight year old and the eight month old – excellent family planning!) and I visited Target for the typical baby purchases: new size 18mos onesies for the “small” one....
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An Ode to Highway 71 in Arkansas – Part One
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America’s Artwork: A Perspective from 52″
Yesterday, I had the opportunity to visit Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art with two of the art world’s most astute and unbiased critics: my eight year old daughter Sophie and her eight year old...
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Child of Arkansas
The lithe girl was handed a torch by her father, which seemed poignant and appropriate. It was formerly a substantial silver maple branch downed by a storm, resurrected for noble duty. Stuffed with...
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A Good House
It’s 9:00 on a Saturday morning in June in a quiet little neighborhood. It’s not the trendy place to live, but it has deep heart and soul. It’s been around awhile. Very few people are stirring despite...
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Why The Hunger Games Is Appropriate For Small Children (Sort Of)
I was stunned when our oldest daughter, at about the age of five, casually mentioned Hannah Montana. At that time, she was neither spending time at other kids’ houses nor watching TV without me...
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An Ode to Highway 71 in Arkansas – Part Two
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On mothers and daughters and music and fire
Last night I sat around smoldering embers with the child of Arkansas. She asked for another torch and then settled for sticking a branch into the flames and writing smoky letters using the night sky...
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A Safe Spot in the Outdoors
In early 2012, I was fortunate through some of life’s unusual circumstances to meet Ed Cooley, a nationally-renowned photographer living in Rogers, Arkansas. His stunning, more vivid than life...
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These. Are. The days.
I used to walk (ok, hustle) to school in Wenatchee, Washington. First, down Orchard Street to Orchard Middle School after we first moved to the U.S. (and after the kids recovered from their shock that...
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Beans, Boots & Blogs
I am exceptionally excited that tomorrow (!) I’ll have the opportunity to attend an event hosted by P. Allen Smith (the Arkansas-based television host, designer, gardening and lifestyle expert) and the...
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Summer Fun at the New Rogers Splash Park
Arkansas boasts some absolutely incredible and affordable activities for families across the state, but the one that should top your summer fun list is the brand new Rogers Aquatics Center, scheduled...
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Belt It Out {Leather Bracelet Giveaway}
Once in a while, you encounter some pretty meaningful things. They’re still just inanimate objects, but they may be rife with symbolism, memories or just a degree of character that tells you they were...
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In the Lair of the Naturalist
When our oldest daughter started devouring the Spiderwick Chronicles, we dove in right alongside her. I was particularly riveted by the way Arthur Spiderwick’s office was depicted, all rife with...
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1895 Dogbranch School
This is at the 1895 Dogbranch School and Cemetery, just off the highway and taken during a meandering trip through north Arkansas to Mountain View in the summer of 2012 to visit Stephanie Buckley, The...
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On Ducks, Bonnets & Gingham Dresses
I love this framed print reminiscent of Holly Hobbie illustrations (which I, of course, searched to find official history and links – the character debuted in 1967 – and found very little, meaning I’m...
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