The link between walking and creativity

The link between walking and creativity

Look. Some years ago, Chris felt a calling to reach a class about walking and writing. The Green Street Arts Center in Middletown, Connecticut agreed to let her try it. She called the class Writing in Motion. Writing from Motion evolved into Writing from Nature,...
Appearances for Libertarians on the Prairie

Appearances for Libertarians on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder in Mansfield, Missouri Libertarians on the Prairie, Chris’s biography of the secret coauthors of the Little House on the Prairie books, continues to get out there. She will give a keynote speech on Thursday, July 13 at a gathering of Laura...
Danbury, Connecticut and the Little House books

Danbury, Connecticut and the Little House books

Rose Wilder Lane in Danbury. Photo from William Holtz papers at Hoover Library Not everyone realizes that the city of Danbury, Connecticut was an important landscape in the making of the pioneer stories, the Little House books. Laura Ingalls Wilder’s daughter...
Procrastination no more

Procrastination no more

In the archives room at the Herbert Hoover Presidential Library. Talk about getting things done. It’s the time of year when I give up something, something that’s hard to give up. My exercise this year is giving up putting off projects or tasks or dreams....
A misbehaving horse’s lesson

A misbehaving horse’s lesson

Firm log bridge. Icy snow on top. Near Cardigan Mountain, New Hampshire. I took riding lessons for a few years, starting at age 49. At first I had no instincts. I lacked courage, and the horse knew it. I sometimes praised a misbehaving horse, hoping he would behave...