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...logical place to start is Pepin, Wis., where Laura was born in 1867 in "the little house in the big woods," as she titled her first book. Though the Ingalls log cabin is gone, a faithful reconstruction now occupies the site. Upstairs is a large attic; downstairs are a bedroom, a pantry and a living room with a stone fireplace like the one where Laura and Mary warmed their toes on snowy nights as they listened to Pa's songs and stories. Tourists will also want to see the Pepin Historical Museum and its displays of local history. The town...
...Office of Career Services. If he or she asks you what you want to do, what do you think you would be good at, all things being equal, can you answer them? Do you know? Have you really tried to dust out the cobwebs in your mental attic, to remember what drives you in the first place...
...Office of Career Services. If he or she asks you what you want to do, what do you think you would be good at, all things being equal, can you answer them? Do you know? Have you really tried to dust out the cobwebs in your mental attic, to remember what drives you in the first place...
...wife Bess and daughter Margaret, an aspiring concert soprano. His pleasures and his wants were simple. When his presidency was finished and he arrived back in Independence, Mo., reporters asked him on his first day home what he intended to do. "Carry the grips up to the attic:" he replied...
While Tad has a healthy irreverence, guarding against the dead-end path of taking life too seriously, he maintains respect and love for the parts of Christmas that are genuine. He thinks fondly of "the tarnished diversity of ornaments Dad and Mom hauled down annually from the Waterville attic," musing that "Christmas ornaments are as close as most regular families ever get to an art collection." Underneath his jaded perspective lies a search for what is real, for what he can cling...