Off The Shelf

I'm doing some off the shelf items today on the blog. I had planned on stopping the little blurbs of people throughout history that had suffered failures before they became famous and successful. I have several left so will continue to them until the shelf is bare.

Zane Grey: Incredibly popular in the early 20th century, this adventure book writer began his career as a dentist, something he quickly began to hate. So, he began to write, only to see rejection after rejection for his works, being told eventually that he had no business being a writer and should given up. It took him years, but at 40, Zane finally got his first work published, leaving him with almost 90 books to his name and selling over 50 million copies worldwide.

Now on to the articles of the day. Some people are social and some aren't. I probably fall in the middle, I'm incredibly shy to being social is kind of difficult but by the same token I love to interact with people. It may be the size of my brain that causes my at times anti-socialism:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101226/ap_on_sc/us_sci_social_brain

We all hate spam. Those annoying penal enlargement and breast implant emails providing the links to there websites. Delete. Delete. Delete. However, now a man has taken another approach, read on:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101227/ap_on_hi_te/us_anti_spam_crusader

As you know by now I love stories of children succeeding or doing fun and good things:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101222/ap_on_sc/eu_britain_child_scientists

Your comments are appreciated. Off to Mom's which may be my last night there until next week. It depends on the road conditions from Utah to Portland and when my sister can make it back home.


WHO AM I?

I was born in 1870 and died in 1943 and was an American journalist, poet and historian. I was the first woman to hold an office in the Arizona Territorial government and my personal collection of photographs and artifacts served as the starting collection for a history museum which bears my name. When I was eleven my family followed the Santa Fe Trail to Arizona Territory. During the trip I was thrown from my horse and suffered an injury to my back or hip. The pain of the injury would remain with me the rest of my life. Il was educated in public schools, At an early age I demonstrated an interest in poetry. My work would eventually earn me an honorary Bachelor of Arts from the University of Arizona. At the age of 20 I sold my first article to a children's magazine. By age 22 I was working as a journalist, poet, and essayist. I served as Territorial Historian. A year after my appointment I released of Cactus and pine: songs of the Southwest. Following the death of my father l acquired the cabin which had served as the "Governor's mansion" for Arizona Territory's first governors. I founded the Prescott Historical Society. I was a popular speaker, giving talks on local history and folklore to schools and clubs throughout the state. I was among the first to be inducted to Arizona's Women Hall of Fame. Who Am I?