Rachael's Varied Interests
I loved the Little House on the Prairie book series by Laura Ingalls Wilder as a girl, and read all eight books to my son when he was about 6. After that, I went in search of a similar series with a male protagonist and …
Just finished reading Charlotte’s web to my son, out loud, for the third time. You probably remember the story — a barnyard spider named Charlotte’s saves a pig named Wilbur’s life by weaving words into her web. I love this book every time I read …
“Talking to the Wall” is documentary film maker Steve Alves’ account of Greenfield’s 1992 battle against Wall-Mart which made it the first town in the country to successfully reject Wall-Mart’s advances. Engaging, beautifully edited, and fact-filled, this documentary reminds us of what’s so special about …
This is one of my favorite books at the moment. It’s essentially an autobiography of Helen (and Scott) Nearing, famous before-their-time back-to-the-landers, vegetarians, and intellectual, and authors of Living the Good Life. Helen and Scott went “back to the land” during the Depression, moving from …
Amy Dacyczyn is a New England mother, graphic artist, and military wife who published a popular newsletter in the ’90s called The Tightwad Gazette. She’s creative, smart, and calls herself “the frugal zealot.” Rather than “doing without” for its own sake, Amy’s focus is on reducing …