Author: The Park Wife
The Park Wife is a tribe builder. She is the founder of Arkansas Women Bloggers
(ARWB), an online community designed to gather,grow, and connect bloggers in our state. Stephanie recently launched her company The Women Bloggers
and expanded her state-focused blog communities into Oklahoma, Kansas, Mississippi, Alabama, and Texas. Through ARWB, she holds the popular, smaller niche blog conference Arkansas Women Bloggers Unplugged, submerging
bloggers in an environment that fosters relationships, communication and some
pretty fierce dedication and camaraderie. Considered an old-timer in the blog
world, since 2005 she has written what she hopes is a love letter to her children
on her lifestyle blog, The Park Wife. Raised in the debutante world of Mississippi,
she married her hunky park ranger and moved to Arkansas 15 years ago and has
fallen in love with the state. She loves gardening, porch swings, a beautifully
set table, a delicious meal surrounded by great conversations, their cabin in the
woods and monograming everything that is not nailed down. She is a devoted
wife and fun-loving, homeschool mom to two extraordinarily cool little gentlemen
and is fortunate enough to live on one of Arkansas’s premier state parks.
Sunday Link-Up {March 2, 2014}
Sunday Link-Up {February 23, 2014}
Making Music, Making a Difference {Wordless Wednesday}
Peggy Bayer lives in central Arkansas with her husband and two girls. She blogs about food, family and food her family eats at www.PorkChopTuesday.com. Peggy does more than cook and chauffeur the kids, though. She sings in the Little Rock chapter of Sweet Adelines International, Top of the Rock Chorus, as well as her quartet, Hyper Octave. She is very involved in the many fund-raising events and performances affiliated with these singing groups. When she is not singing a cappella with her Sweet Adeline pals, she is singing with the praise and worship team at her church.Follow Hyper Octave on Facebook!
Listen to Your Mother Submission Deadline is Saturday!
CALLING ALL BLOGGERS – because we know you have some fabulous writing already – you have just a few days left to submit pieces for consideration for the Listen to Your Mother: Little Rock (LTYM) show.
What’s Listen To Your Mother, you ask?
LTYM is a live reading of local writers, with productions in 32 cities nationwide celebrating Mother’s Day. Each performance is produced locally, casting local writers, creators and community inventors who share their pieces on stage (after which they live on YouTube forever).
This is the first year Little Rock is hosting LTYM. Your fellow Arkansas Women Bloggers Sarabeth Jones, Kerri Jackson Case, and Kyran Pittman are directing it after having a great experience in past LTYM shows in northwest Arkansas.
Listen To Your Mother: Little Rock
3:00 pm Mother’s Day, May 11, 2014
Arkansas Repertory Theatre (The Rep)
We are really excited about bringing Listen to Your Mother to central Arkansas. We want this to be a cast that represents our entire community: all ages, races, religions, ethnicities and genders are invited to submit.
Writers who want to submit a piece do not have to be mothers or even women. The only requirement is the piece has “motherhood” as its theme. It can be thoughtful, funny, irreverent or even sad.
The deadline for submission is February 22, 2014. Auditions will be March 15 at The Rep in Little Rock. The show will be Mother’s Day: Sunday, May 11, 2014 also at The Rep.
No time to waste! All the submission, audition, and performance details are here: http://listentoyourmothershow.com/littlerock/ . Check out the info in the top post, then get your submission in!
Sunday Link-Up {February 16, 2014}
Arkansas Flower & Garden Show
Arkansas Women Bloggers will set up as THE Social Media Spot for the 2014 Arkansas Flower & Garden Show. The show runs from Friday, February 21-23, 2014 at the Statehouse Convention Center in Little Rock.
Last week, the Bloggers in Bloom event was held at the beautiful home of Clark Trim and Henrik Thostrup (see the cool things you get to be a part of when you are an active member in ARWB?). It was a beautiful evening of great wine, food, fellowship, and floral awesomeness.
Go read the recaps of the evening below from some of our incredible ARWB sistahs in attendance! They are all giving away tickets to the show and we would love to see you.
Stop by booth 17 at the show, say hi and we will catch up on life, laugh, Instagram, Tweet, Facebook and all that other fun social media savvy stuff we all do when we are hanging out with our friends, our community.
Sunday Link-Up {February 9, 2014}
Sunday Link-Up {February 2, 2014}
Sunday Link-Up {January 26, 2014}