Caroline Quiner Ingalls (Ma)
A Lesson from Ma
Ma Ingalls has apparently become a teacher in a new series out in blogland. I thought the first lesson a great one, and look forward to future installments.
What can you learn from Ma Ingalls?
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Ask the Experts: What sickness did Ma have?
Folks, we’ve been remiss in posting the questions received by our readers lately, having a tendency to respond by email and never put them up on the site for others to read. We’ll try to rectify that, so don’t be surprised if you see a number of questions put up in the next couple of
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Lessons from Laura
Mansfield, Missouri, held its annual Little Laura/Little Farmer Boy contest this past weekend.
I asked my seven-year-old niece if she wanted to wear her prairie dress and participate in the contest. “No,” she answered without hesitation. “I want to be in a Mary contest.”
Did I mention my niece is blonde?
I find it somewhat amusing that almost
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Notes on a Mini-LauraPalooza
I finally stood in Plum Creek today.
Tiny minnows swum up and down the creek bed, easily seen in crystal clear water just a few inches deep. From the bank on which I stood, I could look up and directly at the site of the dugout featured in On the Banks of Plum Creek. I remembered
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Little House Grammar
My daughter started The Long Winter over the weekend. I am keeping quiet and remaining low-key. She has no idea how thrilled I am, which is the only way she’ll finish the series.
She recently completed By The Shores of Silver Lake. That actually took a little while to get into. We forget, as veteran readers,
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Reflections on Cheese, From a True Wisconsinite
Ah, cheese. Until those silly California cows started their “happy” dance of cheese-making, Wisconsin served as the number-one source of good cheese in the United States.
But as a Wisconsin native, I can tell you without a shadow of a doubt that we take our cheese much more seriously than anyone in California.
Take our elementary education,
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Of Remembrance…
Laura said it far better than I could, so I decided to let her words stand yesterday, for Memorial Day. But I could not help but reflect yesterday about those no longer with us.
The threads of this post may seem scattered as I go, but I hope to weave them together in the end. Remembering
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Memorial Day: A Day to Mourn
“Happy Memorial Day!” I hear everyone saying today.
Happy? Really?
“It’s just another day to me,” someone shrugged.
“The pool’s open!” exclaimed another jubilantly. “We’re having a picnic,” still others remarked.
Memorial Day, or Decoration Day, began as a day of remembrance for soldiers who were killed in the Civil War. It was later expanded to include fallen American
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Happy Mothers' Day!
The older we grow the more precious become the recollections of childhood’s days, especially our memories of mother. Her love and care halo her memory with a brighter radiance, for we have discovered that nowhere else in the world is such loving self-sacrifice to be found; her counsels and instructions appeal to us with greater
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Caroline Ingalls: Everyone's Ma
Caroline Quiner Ingalls was the beloved mother of five children during her lifetime, but through the writings of her daughter Laura Ingalls Wilder, she has become dearly loved as “Ma” to thousands of children through the decades.
Let’s honor Ma this Mother’s Day weekend by sharing a cherished memory of her, or of her influence on
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