Sandra day o connor for kids3/6/2023 ![]() ![]() I don’t have another children’s book in the works now, but I may possibly write another one. When I’ve loved a place, it’s very hard for me to go back, because I don’t want to see it changed from the way I knew it.ĭo you plan to write another children’s book? It was a special space and a special way of life and I miss it very much. If anything goes wrong on the ranch, you have to fix it. You have more responsibilities and you are relied upon to do lots of different things. Today they agree with me that living on a ranch like that helps you as a person. It must have been gratifying to you that they were able to share the lifestyle that you knew as a child. They didn’t make a peep! They thought he was fabulous. When my sons arrived on the ranch, the first thing my brother did was sit them down and cut their hair. My kids grew up in the 1960s, when all boys wanted to wear their hair long. The Navajo believe that all disciplining of children should be carried out by the mother’s brother, and that is exactly what happened-and it worked just fine. He began running the ranch after he got out of college, and he welcomed our children there for part of every summer, and they were able to have fabulous experiences there, just as I had. When our sons were young, we spent all our vacations on the ranch, plus every Thanksgiving and most Christmases. After living there for three-plus years, we ended up in Phoenix. I met my husband at Stanford Law School and after we married, he was drafted during the Korean War and was sent to Germany. They both passed away in their mid-eighties and we kept the ranch for some years after that.ĭid the Lazy B play an important role in your own children’s lives? Everyone they’d ever known wrote or called them after that, so their last years were full of attention, which they really enjoyed. when I was sworn into the Supreme Court in 1981, and it was very special to me that they were there. Neither ever spent a day in the hospital, they really never left the ranch. My parents lived there for their entire lives. Obviously, several of your books are rooted in your family ranch. ![]() That dog stayed on the ranch with me for years and years. After a while, my mother was even willing to let Susie come indoors. The dog really was as cute as could be, with her long curly tail. She was willing to let the dog come home with me. It is very endearing.Įndearing enough to win your mother’s approval? Have you ever seen a dog that smiles? It’s a scream, since you just don’t expect it. The grocer had come across a stray dog, a little mutt that smiled. At the end of the day, it was a trip to town to get groceries that resulted in my finding a pet. Yes, I finally found my pet! And it was funny how that finally happened. But that took a little learning.ĭid you at last find a dog, like young Sandra in your book? And in each instance I did eventually realize that these were wild animals and they were better off where they came from. I did take in some animals-a bobcat and tortoise and all the others I included in Finding Susie, plus some others as well. Like any child I of course thought it would be great to have a pet, but my mother didn’t want to have any pets in the house. It was just my parents, the cowboys and me. I grew up on a remote ranch and for 10 years I didn’t have brothers or sisters. ![]()
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