Wednesday Weekly Blogging Challenge
Characters I want To Meet
(3/12/25)
I wondered for a while if this meant fictionary characters or a few of those people in life that just seem to be a character :) So…I took this as a little bit of both.
I would love to meet Jo March from Little Women. The book is one of the first somewhat “grown-up” books my mom gave me. Grown-up meaning that the story could easily have been real life. I also grew up in a small town which made me identify somewhat.
The other reason I identified was not one you might think. I
was adopted and my mother was quite old back then to be a mother. Old enough in
fact to have lived through the depression. So, while some of Jo’s way of living
might seem to be in really “olden” times, they were in fact in a time that I
heard about every day. Ways to save, meals that would stretch to feed several
people, putting vegetables and fruits by for winter, and quick work that left
plenty of time for…more work. I had a working mother, very odd in the 1950’s, and I grew up learning to be very independent, like Jo.
The other character I would like to meet is not fictional but is or was an author. Gladys Taber was born in 1899. She wrote over 50 books, and she also wrote articles for Family Circle and Ladies Home Journal. Depending on your age, you may not even know that those are now defunct magazines.
Gladys Taber loved the outdoors, cooking, gardening, and dogs, dogs, and more dogs.
She lived in a place called Stillmeadow Farms, and her last
books are about Stillmeadow and her life there. Many
are also about her
spaniels. She was, as was my mother, divorced, unusual and difficult for a
woman then. But she was strong and independent, very like my mother.
I’m beginning to see a pattern…
maybe today’s subject made me
think of my mom, and I miss her.
Do you have a special character or even a person you’d like
to see again?
Jo is a good pick!
ReplyDeletea good book that I'm sure was never thought to last so long...
DeleteLittle Women was one of the first 'grown up' books I read, too! I found it on my Nanna's mantelpiece one day and she urged me to read it.
ReplyDeleteIsn't it funny such a book was thought so important. I don't know your age (nor need to) but depending on the generations who raised us, it was an enjoyment and memorable to them.
ReplyDeleteI can relate to your reasons for the first. My mom didn't live through the Depression, but her parents did. I think that a lot of what they had to do to get by was passed on to her as she was always very frugal and knew how to do so many things. Thankfully, she passed a lot of that along to me, too.
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Jo is a really good pick, I do agree. And seeing some people pick dogs is making me smile because I did not think along those lines.
ReplyDeleteThat's why all these different ideas are fun :)
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