Melissa Gilbert, BACK TO THE PRAIRIE: A Home Remade, A Life Rediscovered

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Zibby Owens

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🗓️ 10 May 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Zibby is joined by child star of Little House on the Prairie Melissa Gilbert to discuss her latest memoir, Back to the Prairie, which focuses largely on her experience creating her dream home in the Catskills. The two talk about how Melissa faced and overcame her chronic pain, when she and her husband decided to dive all in on living a more rustic lifestyle, and what she loves most about being a grandmother. Melissa also shares how her life differs from popular misconceptions about celebrities as well as what she hopes to write next.

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Vivi Owens, and you're listening to the award-winning podcast. Moms don't have time to read books.
0:07.5	And speaking of books, I have two of my own books coming out this spring and summer.
0:12.7	Princess Charming is a picture book, which debuts on April 19th. And Bookends, a memoir of love, loss, and literature.
0:20.5	Comes out on July 1st, and it is truly a labor of love.
0:23.8	I hope you'll pre-order, order, and join me on tour as I go across the country.
0:28.5	You can find out more at Zibiowens.com or bookendsmemoir.com.
0:34.3	And you can follow me on Instagram at Zibby Owens because I always post about everything. Enjoy the show.
0:41.7	Melissa Gilbert is the author of Back to the Prairie, a Home Remade, a Life Rediscovered. Melissa
0:47.4	starred as Laura Ingalls on the hit television show Little House on the Prairie, which, by the way,
0:52.7	I must have seen every single episode of the show growing up.
0:55.7	I, like, never missed one. I would bathe during commercials. This was, like, my childhood favorite.
1:01.8	She has starred in numerous movies and served two terms as president of the Screen Actors Guild.
1:06.3	She is the author of Prairie Tale, Daisy and Josephine, and My Prairie Cookbook. She resides in the Catskills
1:11.4	in New York City with her husband, Timothy Busfield. Back to the Prairie is her latest book.
1:15.8	Welcome, Melissa. Thank you so much for coming on moms. Don't have time to read books.
1:20.1	To discuss. Back to the Prairie. So exciting. A home remade, a life rediscovered. It was so great.
1:29.3	It was so great to like get inside your head and hear your whole story. Really, it was, it was amazing. It was told in such an approachable,
1:35.4	like conversational way that I just felt like I was chatting with a friend or something like that.
1:39.9	So I don't know if that was your intention, but I, that's what I, it was very successful.
1:44.1	Oh, good.
1:45.4	I'm so glad.
1:46.3	You know, it's interesting because this is sort of the beginning of promoting it for me.
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