T hink about the letters you've saved over the years. Are they love letters? Are they the letters you got from home during your firs...

Laura Ingalls Wilder, Rose Wilder Lane , and other women have fortunately been "allowed" to be writers (and therefore a part of h...

The Cowardly Lion in the Wizard of Oz sought courage and went to great lengths to find it. It seems to me that both Laura Ingalls Wilder ...

A case of dreaded "writer's block" is not what prevented me from posting earlier today. I've been gone the whole day, wit...

Laura Ingalls Wilder promises to be her husband's eyes as she rides the train from Missouri to San Francisco in 1915 to visit with her...

Today I finished The Catcher in the Rye ! I could then begin West from Home with a clear conscience (one book at a time). Like Holden in T...

Greetings! Lest you think I'm some kind of simpleton, I read books other than those written for children. (Although I did just read Lit...