"When I was a child, I spoke like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child...." (1 Corinthians 13:11). And when I was a child, I adored and devoured Laura Ingalls Wilder's books and adjacent biographical writings. Anything "Little House..." was an obsession with me, well into my teens. I truly appreciate Rachel Bomberger's more mature-eyed reflections on the series, distilling it from entertaining "autobiographical fiction" to the important truths and values of life, those both stated or implied by Wilder and those only found between the writer's skillfully crafted passages. While in truth, I do not long to buckle down and quilt by candlelight in a dirt dugout, I do often yearn for the simple things in life - those single-minded, clearly focused tasks that drew families close and brought communities together. Well done, fellow Lutheran Lady!