Little House in Ohio, indeed
The Laura Ingalls Wilder Book I mentioned isn’t one of the wonderful children’s novels. It’s called Little House in the Ozarks: A Laura Ingalls Wilder Sampler: The Rediscovered Writings. It’s a collection of incredible articles she wrote for Farmer’s Week about her life on the farm and her social and political thoughts and inspirations.
Sandra IM’d me a link to it with the thought that Laura’s writings on domestic life might help trigger some essay topics for me. Of course, I never bought it and then one day it showed up in the mail.
Every time I look at the book, I feel this wonderful support for my writing life coming to me all the way from Coloransas.
My idea when I read the first few pieces was to start a conversation with Laura on my blog, to do a series of essays in response to her writing and put them in the category Little House in Ohio. Well, in searching through my archives, I see that it was almost exactly one year ago that I posted the one and only piece—not really an essay, just some thoughts.
I’ve categorized 27 other posts under Little House in Ohio but have totally neglected my idea, life intervenes and suddenly a year goes by. But no more, I intend to get back to this writing. This writing and my novel. It’s time.
"In summer we live out of doors, and have only impulses and feelings, which are all for action, and must wait commonly for the stillness and longer nights of autumn and winter before any thought will subside; we are sensible that behind the rustling leaves, and the stacks of grain, and the bare clusters of the grape, there is the field of a wholly new life, which no man has lived; that even this earth was made for more mysterious and nobler inhabitants than men and women. In the hues of October sunsets, we see the portals to other mansions than those which we occupy."
~Henry David Thoreau
February 28th, 2007 at 7:42 am
Fantastic!! And I love that banner picture. I love how it could be abstract if you don’t focus on it too much but then the icicles pop out when you do.
March 1st, 2007 at 9:40 am
I, myself, would like to read more about “little house in Ohio” as I live in Ohio. Columbus, to be exact.
March 1st, 2007 at 9:47 pm
. . . so many posts in the last few days! so good to see so many snapshots of your living again . . . lila g is just gorgeous, and oh lordy how she looks just like you, with bro’s cushy lips
. . . the cupcakes look divine, please airmail asap 
. . . i love that you are aligning to the vibe of laura . . . she is just so wonderful and you both have that connected-to-the-earth energy that is so lovely . . . loving you . . . big smooches . . . lucinda on the way 