Until she claims her marriage was never consummated and that as a virgin she may set her sights on the new heir, the charismatic and headstrong Prince Harry who will one day rule as King Henry VIII.
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How can you write a whole article about this and leave out the most important part: how many views and likes did the video get?
Conservative Democrats getting elected in conservative districts where previously there were ultra-conservative (or just radical) Republicans is still a win. Voting with you sometimes is better than voting with you never.
In “These Happy Golden Years”, Laura stays with the Brewster family during her teaching assignment. Mrs. Brewster, who evidently hates prairie life, threatens her husband with a knife in the middle of the night. It’s a pretty dark chapter.
The best part of the story was Almanzo saving the town from starvation. Now that’s a story.
It’s in “Little Town on the Prairie,” a New England Supper to celebrate Thanksgiving, and it’s a whole roast pig. (Yum!) Laura is indeed stuck doing dishes for the whole freakin’ duration of the supper because she wants to help her friend, Ida, the minister’s adopted daughter. “She couldn’t leave Ida alone to cope…
Oh, heck Laura and Almanzo owned cars and made road trips to DeSmet for Old Settlers Day, and I think to Detroit for a book signing for “The Long Winter. I’m sure it was Detroit and “The Long Winter,” not sure whether they drove or took the train. Pretty sure they drove, though.
Remember when poor Jack was lost in the river crossing? Why the hell did Pa make him swim instead of popping him in the wagon to float across??
The First Four Years is almost an American re-telling of the Book of Job and I’ve tried to forget it. But glad it got mentioned, ha.
You know, I think of Jack fairly often, even as an adult. The moment he was lost in the river, then he comes back, was probably one of the most memorable triumphs of my young reading life.
Bert Cooper’s eulogy for Mrs. Blankenship made me think of Laura. How monumentally the world can change in one lifespan.
I re-read these with my kids, and was REALLY angry at the Ingalls parents for pretty much everything they did, including how little they seemed to help Laura as an adult in the horror-filled epilogue The First Four Years.
Pioneer Girl is super interesting. It’s the internet where brevity is in demand, so I’ll just say this for the folks who haven’t read it:
I find it amazing they are held up as a model of gumption and self sufficiency. Their lives were horrible (by 21 century standards) but there were the receipts of a massive welfare program - land, federal hand-outs, goods from the East. And even with all that support, they couldn’t make it.
I’m probably about 3/4 of the way through this book, and it is so interesting. I’m willing to cut Charles Ingalls SOME slack, although not too much for dragging his wife and four children (I don’t think they really moved around between when Freddie was born and died) from pillar to post, but Rose Wilder Lane was a hot…
Since I went to a nerd school (where the popular kids were the ones with the highest GPA and football games were so you could watch the halftime show), our taunts of rival schools were shit like, “[Rival School] doesn’t recycle!” and “[Rival School] drives solo in the HOV lane!” and “[Rival School] is a…
I don’t know, allowing people to post pictures with their guns seems like a good way to quickly weed out the people I never, ever, ever, want to go with on a date.
Sorry, no, this is absolute horseshit.
You are correct. Women usually have custody because men usually don’t seek custody. It becomes a whole confirmation bias thing. When men seek custody they are virtually equally as likely to win as a woman. They just don’t even try to get it. Now that’s usually shared custody. To have a parent of either sex fully lose…