What a time it has been trying to get this published! Like I will explain in the next paragraph, I was called in last night to work before I could get a start on this blog. Now, I’m sitting here, it’s 1:21 am, and I’m just now finishing what I was hoping to do yesterday (Thursday). Everything you see below has been worked on throughout today and has been very difficult to complete up until I got home at 12:30. Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving and I’ll be back later today to post another birthday for the 30th!
My plan was to do a birthday blog yesterday after stuffing
myself with tons of food, but work decided to change that plan as I got called
in to close. Since I didn’t get home until eleven thirty I decided to just do
my blog today. Of course, I’m a day late and already stressed about missing two
days in a row of birthdays, so it makes sense that I’d over sleep and have to
work until close again. I’m going to try something new because I’m tired of
putting stuff off until the next day only for it to be pushed back yet again! Instead
of being angry and stressing over when I’ll have time to do this blog, I have
decided to use my cell phone to complete this birthday blog today/tonight while
at work. The current time is 3:17pm and the story is pretty slow, but it’s Friday
(the busiest day of the week) so let’s see how long it takes!?
Shocker! It is now 10:30 and I’m still unable to truly start
on this blog. I think my plan failed, which I’m not surprised, but I will be
finishing it up after I get home. So this should be posted a littler after
12:30-1am. I’m still going to count the birthday being for November 29 since I
had already gathered information and read up on someone. Be back soon!
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Happy birthday Louisa May Alcott! Today we celebrate her 181
birthday! For those of you counting the weeks she is 9,444 and for those
of you counting days she is 66,109. Louisa was a famous novelist born in
Germantown, Pennsylvania and died in 1888 of a stroke. Though her name didn’t
ring a bell to me at first, I did find a very interesting note to add; Louisa’s
family was friends with Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson! When I
read that, I knew she was a perfect fit for this class blog! Something I found
really interesting about her as well was that during the Civil War, she went to
Washington D.C. and helped out as a nurse. She served at the Union Hospital in Georgetown
for six weeks and wrote letters to home during her stay. Those letters
eventually were published in something called the Commonwealth.
Louisa was a very famous and best-selling novelist of the
late 1800s, and even today she has popular works such as Little Women. Some of her novels were even turned into movies. The
Inheritance, An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving, Little Men, and again, Little Women
are the noted movies that I could find of hers. Before becoming famous, she
published many of her works under the pen name Flora Fairfield and A.M.
Barnard. Her first few published novels under her real name were Atlantic Monthly and Lady’s Companion, but she would not see
great success until, again, Little Women
was published. This gave her enough wealth to base her living on writing books.
She even dabbled in adult novels, but they weren’t very successful.
Louisa remained a writer until her death on March 6, 1888 in
Boston at the age of 55 from a stroke. It has been noted that her last words
were “Is it not meningitis?” Kind of a weird farewell goodbye, but interesting none
the less! I also read that she is buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery very close
to Hawthorne, Thoreau, and Emerson! This hillside that they all rest in peace
at is known as “Authors Ridge”. Pretty neat don’t you think?!
QUOTES
- "I am not afraid of storms for I am learning how to sail my ship."
- "Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable."
- "Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead." (my favorite)
- "Painful as it may be, a significant emotional event can be the catalyst for choosing a direction that serves us - and those around us - more effectively. Look for the learning."
- "Love is a great beautifier."
- "A faithful friend is as strong defense; And he that hath found him hath found a treasure."
- "We all have our own life to pursue, our own kind of dream to be weaving, and we all have the power to make wishes come true, as long as we keep believing."
- "It takes two flints to make a fire."
- "Housekeeping ain't no joke."
- "Money is the root of all evil, and yet it is such a useful root that we cannot get on without it any more than we can without potatoes."
Hope everyone enjoyed this birthday blog of the day as it took me a while to actually finish it! I also hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving and are enjoying their fall break(though I'm not sure any of us truly have a week off from school work). I shall be back on here in about twelve hours or so to make another post on another birthday. So until then, take care and READ ON!
I absolutely adore Louisa May Alcott. I first read her book Little Women one summer day in the shade of our porch back in the late 1980's. The four March girls captivated me so deeply that I did not think about the reflective sun hitting my lily white knees as I read. If I recall I blogged about my one day read for last semester's American Lit class.
ReplyDeleteI even have a cat named after the heroine in Little Women. Josephine is my 13+ year old calico that I rescued when she was six months old. She's the toughest animal on my property. She certainly lives up to her nickname of Jo.
My copy of Little Women is no long on my bookshelf, instead it sits on my nine year old daughter's night stand. You see, a couple of months ago I finally used that optical insurance my husband pays for through his work. For over a year my youngest had been reading her heart out all the while needing glasses. The day we picked up her glasses I informed her I had something to give her. She was mesmerized by the beautifully bound book. The look of amazement when she looked inside to find my maiden name still makes me smile. I know she's not yet finished Little Women but I know one of these days soon she will come down the stairs hugging the book close to her chest just like she did after reading Anne of Green Gables by Montgomery and her first words will be once again, "Oh, Mommy..."