March 21 - Bedtime Stories

The Ingalls’ resilience, fortitude and self-sufficiency was attractive to me as a spoiled child of the 80s where everything came so easily.

What was your favorite book as a child? Did it influence the person you are now?

Not to sound like a racist colonizer, but my favorite books as a child were the Little House on the Prairie series by Laura Ingalls Wilder. I was obsessed with those books as a kid. I would read them and reread them until they were falling apart.

It was relatable because she was a little girl about my age, living in Minnesota (which is where I was at the time) and the surrounding areas (Wisconsin, Kansas, the Dakotas). That is where the similarities ended. Their life was so difficult. The Ingalls’ resilience, fortitude and self-sufficiency was attractive to me as a spoiled child of the 80s where everything came so easily.