A Not So Simple Life: Our Return to Rustic Roots

About the Book


Mary Ellen Goulet was born in the north woods near Ely, Minnesota, where she learned to love and respect nature. After a professional life of teaching, counseling and conducting seminars in the Twin Cities, she and her husband, Robert Lee, a volunteer firefighter, retired to the southern Black Hills of South Dakota. They designed an “off the grid” home, using small solar panels, a wind generator, and a cistern that collected the rain water which provided for their cooking, washing and drinking needs for them, their cats and their llamas. Mary wrote her first book, A (not so) Simple Life: Our Return to Rustic Roots, about their years living in this unique, non-electic appliance house, in a rural area south of Hot Springs.
While writing her reflections on her present life, it frequently triggered memories of her care-free childhood growing up in the north woods, oblivious to the depression. She described those magical years filled with the wonders of nature, influenced by her family under the steady guidance of her perceptive father.


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Reviews

“It is a remarkable gift to be able to look forward to experiencing what will happen in a coming moment, or day, or in the rest of a lifetime. But, it is an equally treasured gift to be able to share a life full of events when woven into a well-knit sweater of a story.” – Rick W Mills author of 125 Years of Black Hills Railroading

"...I found these pieces quite delightful and written with an easy conversational style and most interesting sense of circumspection. Mary Ellen not only writes of these memories, but she has ... a way of connecting those past events with recent history.

Unique as her childhood in Ely, she senses a pattern that repeats itself again and again in succeeding generations, only with a new twist. I wish that each of her chapters were actually longer - I think the reader begs for more."  - David Kess, President Ely-Winton Historical Society

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