Little House and Rose Wilder

Rose Wilder Lane is the only child of Laura Ingalls Wilder and her husband Almanzo Wilder.  I have been to the house in Mansfield, Missouri where Rose grew up and where Laura wrote the Little House books (though actually it is known now that Rose had a huge part in the writing of those books).  Rose went on to become a pretty famous writer in her own rite. 

Susan Wittig Albert writes the China Bayles herb shop mysteries that I like so much.  She also writes the Darling Dahlia series, which I really like too.  So I was pleasantly surprised to find this on the library shelf.

It is a faction novel, fiction made from mostly facts, about Rose Wilder Lane.  I am loving it too.  If you are a Little House fan, you might want to look this one up.

~ Kat

Need a Good Book?

I think I have mentioned at least one of these books before, but these are two of my biggest motivators to learn to live a simpler life.  When I feel myself slipping back into a frenzied lifestyle, I check them out again at the library and reread them or at least the relevant parts of them for the time.  I finally realized (after I almost highlighted in one of the library's copies - eeek!) that I really needed my own copies.  I do much better at retaining ideas when I can color-code and notate and dog-ear. So, I ordered them and they arrived today.  Out comes the highlighter..

The first one is Abundant Simplicity - Discovering the Unhurried Rhythms of Grace by Jan Johnson.  The second one is from clutter to clarity - simplifying life from the inside out by Nancy Twigg.  Both books focus on uncluttering the mind and lifestyle as a necessary step before one can unclutter the material things that can overwhelm or dominate one's life. 

Enjoy a cup of hot tea and a good book -
Blessings,
Kat