I have yet to hear a bad review of Alison Arngrim’s Confessions of a Prairie Bitch, yet it took me a while before I was ready to break the spine Those who have read my book know that Little House the television show was, uh, not my favorite. I have held a prudish, Jonathan Edwards-sized [...]
Archive for the ‘Laura Pop Culture’ Category
A Penny, Tin Cup, and a Heart-Shaped Cake
Posted: 12/11
Talk show host Jimmy Kimmel recently hosted a prank where he asked the “parents of America” to tell their children they got to open one Christmas present early, give them a “terrible present,” videotape the reactions, and then upload the results to YouTube. Kimmel’s staff then sorted through the posts to create a montage to [...]
Carrie Ingalls: She Falls Down
Posted: 08/11
For the past four years, I have typed about a google variations of the words “Laura Ingalls Wilder” in Google. One day I found this. And while readers of my book will come to understand my complex and perhaps irrational reaction to the show, I can’t help but love the Half Pints, “a punk band [...]
