He resolved to give himself “three more chances at writing.” So he waited tables, renovated homes, worked in real estate, and tried pharmaceutical sales.Īnd then one day, as he was approaching age 30, he decided that he didn’t want to see any more time go by without chasing his dreams. To pass the time he started writing novels. But he injured himself in his first year. He was high school valedictorian and a star runner, and went off to Notre Dame on a track scholarship. It’s the birthday of best-selling novelist and Nicholas Sparks, born in Omaha, Nebraska (1965). Shortly later, Nathaniel Hawthorne wrote to his sister: "We are as happy as people can be, without making themselves ridiculous, and might be even happier but, as a matter of taste, we choose to stop short at this point." They married in 1842 at a bookstore in Boston she was 32 and he was 38. Ha not the old earth passed away from us?-are not all things new? Your Sophie” God bless you this night of the old year. But those only who love as we do can feel the significance and force of this. She wrote: “What a year has been to us! My definition of Beauty is, that it is love, and therefore includes both truth and good. She wrote this letter at the end of that same year, on New Year’s Eve 1839. They’d met the year before, 1838, and her first reaction was, “He is handsomer than Lord Byron!” On New Year’s Day 1839 they became secretly betrothed. On this day 171 years ago Sophia Peabody wrote a contemplative New Year’s Eve love letter to her fiancé, novelist Nathaniel Hawthorne, ( books by this author) the future author of The Scarlet Letter (1850). Scottish-American humorist Craig Ferguson described Scotland’s Hogmanay celebrations like this: “It is a time when people who can inspire awe in the Irish for the amount of alcohol that they drink decide to ramp it up a notch." Anything else could mean bad luck.Ĭustoms vary by region within Scotland and include, decorated herrings, fireballs, pipe bands, fruit cakes - and invariably, song and whiskey. In this Scottish tradition, it’s important that the first-footer is a tall dark-haired male. There’s a tradition at Hogmanay known as “first-footing”, where right after midnight, a person from outside the house scrambles into the house of a neighbor or friend with some small gifts - becoming the first person to bring good fortune for the new year. It’s a name derived from an Old French word for a gift given at the New Year. In Scotland, they’ll be singing it at Hogmanay, which is what New Year’s Eve and its celebrations are called there. People across the world tonight will be linking arms at the stroke of midnight and singing “we’ll tak a cup o’ kindness yet, for auld lang syne”, from the Scottish folk song popularized by Robert Burns. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.” Middle age is when you're forced to.” Bill Vaughan also said, “An optimist stays up until midnight to see the New Year in. Today is New Year’s Eve, about which English poet Alfred Lord Tennyson ( books by this author)wrote: "The year is going, let him go ring out the false, ring in the true." Missouri-born writer Mark Twain, on the other hand, proclaimed that “New Year's is a harmless annual institution, of no particular use to anybody save as a scapegoat for promiscuous drunks, and friendly calls and humbug resolutions.” Another Missouri-born writer, Bill Vaughn, said that “Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve.
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