Yesterday morning, my adult daughter and I were talking about Laura and her Ma and Mother’s Day. Of course, Mother’s Day didn’t exist during Laura’s childhood, but there was never any doubt that Laura honored her mother. My daughter, Jamie,…
Author: Laura Welser
Little Town on the Prairie Read-Along Chapter Offer
Due to an illness and a little scrambling of the chapter posts, I find myself with two chapters to cover in a row. I don’t mind, really I don’t! But I do know there were one or two readers who…
Little Town on the Prairie, Chapter 8: Fourth of July
The Fourth of July. Here in Michigan it’s hard to imagine the fourth of July. We’ve barely enjoyed any spring here and I’m having a hard time believing that it’ll ever be summer! It started, very early, with a BOOM…
Little Town on the Prairie, Ch. 1: Surprise
The first chapter in Little Town on the Prairie. It’s a short one, so short that it can hardly be considered a chapter at all. I can see why Laura wrote it this way though. It doesn’t say much, but…
The Little Town on the Prairie Read-along
You may have noticed that we’ve put up a running list up for the Little Town on the Prairie Read-along. It’s over there on the right. If you’ve volunteered to take a chapter, or if you’ve asked to have one…
It’s So Easy to Laugh — Or Read — In The Springtime
“There’s just this month, and February is a short month, and March will be spring.”-The Long Winter In most places, spring has sprung. Warmer days filled with sunshine, tiny new buds peeking through the earth … and Little Town on the…
My…how time flies!
Please join me in wishing Beyond Little House a Happy (and only slightly belated) Second Anniversary! Yes, it was two years ago this past Saturday, on March 5, 2009, that Beyond Little House was launched. I’m sure all will agree…
Favorite Little House Christmas Moment: By Laura W.
The Little House Christmas chapters have really been uppermost in my mind lately. I had signed up to do the Little House swap over at swapbot.com and had the toughest time trying to decide what to send my partner. I…
Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Michigan Connection (Part Two)
Note: Read Part One of this article here. Just last Saturday, my husband and I (who surprised me by offering to go once again ), took another trip to the University of Michigan-Dearborn to see the Laura Ingalls Wilder exhibit…
Laura Ingalls Wilder: The Michigan Connection
Isn’t it like a dream come true when you find out that there is a Laura event happening close to where you live? When William Anderson (well-known Wilder biographer and researcher) announced at LauraPalooza that a Laura Ingalls Wilder exhibit…