Really!? That's so interesting. Like who? I'm only asking because Cali is very diverse...to someone in California, I would say typical is a Spanglish speaker:)

I mean weird to comment on their looks but...laura was pretty. Carrie was a sick kid and I think that shoes. Mary wasn't unattractive, either. What do you look like with no makeup, skin care products, and cute hair?

I always loved On the Banks of Plum Creek. Although I had weird youth sex fantasies about. Almanzo getting it on with Laura on the trips back from her teaching job in TLW.

Also- Ive loved reading your comments on this one! Love me some little house (books only).

Oh yeah, I’m with you. In fact, I’m not sure if we will ever have the full story (unless there are very clear records I’m not aware of, which could certainly be the case) because why/how would laura know the family expenses in that detail? She was a kid and it’s not like Pa would think it was appropriate to explain it…

my derp! Truth is stranger than fiction.

Oh you knew! Lol sorry.

Yup. I mean, they might have really known much about it. I can’t imagine Pa looping young Laura into the financial conversation regarding Mary’s health. Regardless, I don't really care. They're fiction books. They weren't saints but all things considered, they did pretty well for the time and place in which they lived.

I visited the hotel- the guide said it was not a place for women or girls. Ma had to be with them all the time due to sexual assault threats, even through she had just lost a baby (a baby who was important fiscally as it was a son and would be able to help run a farm). There were drunks everywhere (and the Ingalls…

Me, too. I think it was too far away, Rose wasn’t reliable to help at that time, and Almonzo had mobility issues since the stroke.

Those things happened in the book, The First Four Years

It's almost like they were HUMAN BEINGS!

The young children working, land grabbing, and moving to the frontier were not at all out of the ordinary for that time period. History doesn't exist in a vacuum!

I agree although I believe that Mary's blind school was state subsidized.

Rene is married to the screenwriter if Nightcrawler.

Never really liked Bikram but I ride or die for Kundalini. It works and thus, I love it ....BUT the guy who is often credited with “bringing it to the west” and is featured in a floor to ceiling photo at my former studio / worshipped like a god has a history of sexual assault and harassment (nothing stuck but I doubt…

I was going to say- my grandma raised six kids (all bornabout 18 months apart) on her own after my grandpa died unexpectedly young. My mom was the oldest and has always claimed her mom was a fucking Saint. She then turned around and helped raise grandchildren. You have a choice to be ruinous or a choice to be aware…

I am in an organized group of young (first exec job to middle range exec job) women and the sole purpose is to support fellow female production execs in the industry. There is, as Stewart says, a lot of bitching but very little action. Suggestions are made on occasion by one or two people for ways to do more and they…

Yes yes yes fancy delightful dress up moment. We lived three hours from Chicago and it was such a big deal to go to the show, out for a cool dinner, etc.

Ahahaha a preg woman watches the Duggers and her daughter comes out with a full Michelle hairdo. THATS the real threat here.