One of my favorite books as a kid was “The Little House on the Prairie” by Laura Ingalls Wilder. When I was 6-yearsold (after my older brothers dissuaded me from wanting to be a princess when I grew up because “princesses are illegal in America, so we’d have to execute you.”) I intended to be a pioneer when I grew up. I was rather convinced I could live in a log cabin in the middle of...