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Barb Mayes Boustead

Barb Mayes Boustead

5 Money-Saving (and Conservation-Friendly) Tips

Channel your inner Laura Ingalls Wilder!

6 min readSep 18, 2023

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A four-leaf young plant emerges from a pile of coins (mostly pennies)

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Writing Community

Writing Process Lessons from Laura Ingalls Wilder

Pioneer Girl: The Path into Fiction completes the full reveal from handwritten manuscript to polished and published

4 min readJun 9, 2023

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Three Pioneer Girl volumes lay spread on a white blanket. On top is Pioneer Girl: The Path to Fiction, the most recently published volume.

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The New Climate.

How Each Generation Experiences Climate Warming Differently

Our experience of warming defines each generation, from Laura Ingalls Wilder through Generation Alpha.

5 min readApr 14, 2023

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How Each Generation Experiences Climate Warming Differently

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Chasing Clout

“Bro culture” and storm chasing make a toxic mix

3 min readApr 6, 2023

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Chasing Clout

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3 Things Are True About the Winter of 2022–2023

The winter of 2022–2023 is ending. How did it measure up where you live?

5 min readMar 3, 2023

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3 Things Are True About the Winter of 2022–2023

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10 Books for People Who Like Weather and History

Add these books to your yearly reading list!

8 min readJan 5, 2023

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10 Books for People Who Like Weather and History

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Folklore or Forecast?

Pa Ingalls might have trusted the muskrats, but science has given us more reliable winter outlooks.

2 min readOct 20, 2022

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Folklore or Forecast?

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How Dry Is It?

What do you debate your spouse about? As a couple of meteorologists, we definitely debate the weather. My spouse is convinced that this…

5 min readAug 3, 2022

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How Dry Is It?

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FLASH! BANG! Why Fireworks Aren’t for Everyone (Even If They Used to Be)

When you grow up in an American Legion veterans-only settlement, you grow up understanding a few things. Flag codes. The difference between…

5 min readJun 22, 2022

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Distant fireworks shimmer over a large lake at twilight. In the foreground, a sandy beach with a patch of beach grass leads to shallow water with anchored and docked boats.

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How to Beat the Heat: See It Coming (More than a Week Ahead!)

There’s hot, like the typical heat of summer when children’s popsicles melt down their wrists before they can eat the whole thing, and the…

5 min readJun 18, 2022

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How to Beat the Heat: See It Coming (More than a Week Ahead!)

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Barb Mayes Boustead

Barb Mayes Boustead

Meteorologist, climatologist, instructor, and past president of the Laura Ingalls Wilder Legacy and Research Association. Twitter @windbarb.

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