Last week, I wrote about losing my mother and finding the poem “Rock Me To Sleep” by Elizabeth Akers Allen (written in 1859), which readers of the “Little House” books will remember Mrs. Bradley singing in Little Town on the…
Author: Laura Welser
Little House on Oprah
Over at oprah.com there’s a blog and it happens to be “Summer Reading Week”. Check out this story where homage was paid to Laura Ingalls Wilder. Wendy McClure’s The Wilder Life was given a mention too! The article also tells…
Backward Turn Backward
It’s been a year since my mom passed away…a long and oftentimes very difficult year. My mother was in poor health after she broke her leg several years ago and just wasn’t able to live her life the way she…
LauraPalooza 2010 – Memories
Can you believe it’s been a whole year since LauraPalooza 2010? Can you believe it’s only a year to LauraPalooza 2012? Since I first heard about a possible conference with only one subject – Laura Ingalls Wilder – I was…
Book of the Day
Each day Anita Silvey features a classic (or on its way to becoming a classic) children’s book in her Children’s Book-A-Day Almanac. Today it’s Laura’s turn. Ms. Silvey has featured Little House in the Big Woods in the July 10th…
What kind of fan are you?
Some of us Laura fans are fine with our original set of “Little House” books, well worn and read over and over. We love the books without the desire (or space) to collect anything beyond them. Then there are those…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 25: Unexpected in December
How do you follow something as terrific as Eddie’s Chapter 24 post? I’ll have to give it my best shot! Christmas is tomorrow, but for the Ingalls family there will be no celebrating. They’ve decided that Christmas is just too…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 13: School Days
Laura was enjoying school. And it does sound like Laura is really enjoying school. She has good friends in Ida, Mary Power, and Minnie. She feels comfortable enough to play games with the little boys, when they ask, and not…
Can you find the Little House connection?
We tap maple trees here on our property in Michigan and have a very small scale maple syrup processing operation. In my never ending quest for knowledge , I was recently reading Maple Sugar (a history, lore, and how-to of…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 10: Mary Goes to College
The last day came. Tomorrow Mary was going away. She would finally be able to go to the Iowa College for the Blind in Vinton, Iowa. When I was a young girl, reading this chapter, it was sad and I…