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.
Wordless Wednesday {Start!}
I have been a lackadaisical spectator of the beauty that surrounds me.
In 2014, I choose to be an active participant in seeking experiences, recognizing and truly enjoying the beauty that surrounds me.
Follow The Park Wife on Instagram, that is where she is hanging out a lot these days.
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Wordless Wednesday
A Visit with St. Nick ~ December 22, 1922
Dorothy Johnson
The more things change, the more they stay the same. –Alphonse Karr (1808-1890)
Dorothy Johnson is an Arkansas girl who says she should have been interviewed for Gail Sheehy’s book PASSAGES because of the number of different jobs she’s had. She’s taught junior high English, spent time at home raising kids, worked as a writer and an associate editor at Leisure Arts and functioned as a liaison to the community and cardiologists at Baptist Health. Now she writes about life from her home overlooking the Arkansas River in Little Rock. Check out her blog, Reflections from Dorothy’s Ridge.
#GivingTuesday
Today, we celebrate the joy of giving back, the true essence of the season, well, life for that matter, with #GivingTuesday.
“While we don’t offer door-buster sales or rock-bottom prices like a Black Friday promotion, charities offer something deeper than even the deepest discount ever could,” said Stephanie Meincke, President and CEO of Arkansas Nonprofit Alliance. “Giving to a charity you care about is a powerful and emotionally fulfilling way to celebrate the holiday season. We know that people in Arkansas are incredibly generous to causes they believe in. In fact, our state ranks 7th in charitable giving nationwide. We hope to see that grow and #GivingTuesday is a great way to do that.”
Alright gals, we want to hear about your favorite organizations in the Natural State or beyond that are doing amazing things. Link up a post from your blog so we can know what is near and dear to your heart!
ARWB to Celebrate #GivingTuesday on December 3
Do you have a favorite non-profit organization that is doing wonderful things in your community? We want to hear about it!
We are coming upon the busiest shopping weekend of the year, so just as Black Friday promotes holiday shopping the day after Thanksgiving and Cyber Monday encourages online sales, #GivingTuesday, on Tuesday, December 3, will help spotlight charitable giving.
We ask that ARWB members write a blog post on their blogs about their favorite organization/s and then we will have a Linky on the Arkansas Women Bloggers site on #GivingTuesday where you can share the love with your Arkansas sistah’s.
This is a nationwide event, but we are teaming up with the Arkansas Nonprofit Alliance (ANA), which represents over 360 nonprofit organizations throughout the state, to get the word out. For more information about the Arkansas Nonprofit Alliance or #GivingTuesday, visit www.ArkansasNonprofits.org.
I can not wait to read your posts.
Let’s kick off the holiday season by giving back.
The Park Wife
Wishes {Wordless Wednesday}
Jerusalem Jackson Greer is a writer, speaker, retreat leader, nest-fluffer, urban farm-gal, and author of A Homemade Year: The Blessings of Cooking, Crafting and Coming Together. Jerusalem lives with her husband and two sons in a 1940s cottage in Central Arkansas at the crossroads of beauty and mess with an ever-changing rotation of pets, including a hen house full of chickens and a Hungarian Sheep Dog mutt. As a family, they are attempting to live a slower version of modern life. She blogs about all of this and more at http://jerusalemgreer.com
Twitter Link-Up Party
Hi Ladies! You asked how to find your fellow ARWB gals on Twitter, so we are going to have a little Twitter Link-Up fun to make it easier for you.
Link up your Twitter account, follow two people immediately in front of you in the Linky, and then send out a tweet to your new friends using the hashtag. #helloARWBgals
Make sure you are following @ARWomenBloggers!
The Pioneer Woman “A Year of Holidays” Signing #reeinrogers {Rogers, AR}
Arkansas Women Bloggers will gather, grow, and connect during the The Pioneer Woman’s book signing in Rogers, AR, November 16 (#reeinrogers). And, we will meet up the night before for a little fun!
Everyone that knows me, The Park Wife, knows that I love me some Ree Drummond, The Pioneer Woman. We are old Internets friends from way back in the dark ages of blogging. She is genuine, kind, and is always there to help the bloggy world, she is the real deal sistahs. I am so glad that someone like her has had the success she has had, she has worked hard and deserves it.
I went to her cookbook signing in November 2009, stood in line for four hours, met some great women who I am still friends with today.
Oh, and then I got to have coffee with her in Atlanta when I was there with my Country Outfitter gals/my dear friends Amy James and Stephanie McCratic.
As The Pioneer Woman heads to Rogers, AR for the signing of her Holiday Cookbook on November 16, I hope many of you Arkansas Women Blogger gals will be there to welcome her and get some of her books signed. Great Christmas presents!
Here’s the Info:
The Arkansas Women Bloggers will hold a Meet-up beginning at 6:00 p.m. on Friday, November 15 at the Embassy Suites in Rogers, AR. Come hang out for as long as you can. If you are traveling in for this (like my friend Heather and I) Embassy Suites is offering $89 Pioneer Woman Weekend rate, go make a reservation now!
Then, on Saturday, November 16, we will all meet at 10:15 a.m. at the Walmart at 4208 Pleasant Crossing Blvd to stand in line together, visit, and wait to see REE!!!!!!
Please RSVP on the Facebook event invite if you will be able to join us on Friday evening as we need a headcount.
See you in Rogers!
The Park Wife
BTW-we will use the hashtag #reeinrogers, so use it and follow along!