We Should Have Stayed at the Lake

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Friday afternoon as we were preparing to leave for a weekend at the lake, one of our upstairs toilets overflowed, which left a couple of inches of standing water in our bathroom and caused a downpour in the den below. We quickly grabbed every towel in the house to soak up the water, then threw [...]

A Corny Arkansas Christmas

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I am unabashedly corny at Christmas. I like baking Christmas cookies and cutting them into shapes before decorating them with way too much red and green icing. I enjoy the old traditional Christmas carols and know almost every stanza of each one. My favorite ornaments are the ones my daughters have made, the ones that [...]

Ya Gotta Love Arkansas

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I was raised in Arkansas; it’s the only home I ever remember until I moved to Memphis for graduate school in 1981. I saw this bumper sticker on a car in a parking lot this past weekend at the lake. I wonder what they would say in Idaho?

Fourth of July Fireworks

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Watching the Fourth of July fireworks at Greers Ferry Lake is a family tradition; we get out on the boat, watch the sunset and enjoy the fireworks over the lake. I always take pictures, but it’s hard because I don’t really know what I’m doing (Jim had to come back to Memphis for work) and [...]

Why I Love Summer So Much

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During the summer, we love our weekends at Greers Ferry Lake in Arkansas, in the foothills of the Ozarks. It’s just a little more than three hours away from our home and even though the drive is long, it’s well worth it for the sheer unspoiled beauty of central Arkansas. Each year, I try to [...]