As July comes to an end I feel kind of like Laura Ingalls, who scored a paltry 92 in arithmetic after a whirl of gaiety that left her breathless and almost affianced. The past month has been a whirlwind, first of work, then of travel to LauraPalooza 2010 in Mankato,
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I could probably write three books on crappy mothers in literature (not to mention the angelic ones like Caroline Ingalls or Marmee), but a simple blog post will have to suffice as I reflect on a few of literature’s most insufficient, yet appealing, moms. Who would you add to this
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Wintry Colorado can be an unforgiving place, especially with single-digit temperatures and March (usually our snowiest month) still ahead. I’ve got tea to warm my fingers, but my thoughts are turning to food…the kinds of food my literary heroines would have enjoyed. This morning I saw an article featuring a
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Now that the illustrious day has arrived, I can let the cat out of the bag: My panel with fellow Laura fan and writer Wendy McClure, Loving Laura in a Lindsay Lohan World, has been accepted for the 2010 Laurapalooza Little House on the Prairie fan and academic convergence this
Read more...Yes, I’m still revising the book (on a Friday deadline, eek!), but I haven’t forgotten my readers or my heroines. Luckily, the entire Internet and the rest of the world is busy producing interesting content on heroines at all times. To wit: The new Louisa May Alcott movie that recently
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