Text Box: Dorm Living News Text Box: Feeling Great Text Box: Do you want to just feel good? Or would you prefer to truly feel great? It can feel good to overindulge. Yet it can feel great to enjoy the lasting rewards that come through practicing discipline and restraint. It can feel good to be lazy, lounging around and doing nothing. Yet it can feel truly great to invest your time in creative, effective, productive efforts. It can feel good to win an argument. Yet it can feel great to develop a mutual understanding with, and true respect for another person. Text Box: It can feel good to live for today, abandoning all your responsibilities for the pleasures of the moment. Yet it can feel truly great to live fully in the moment while remaining responsible to the positive possibilities that the future will bring. Rather than living for the fleeting pleasure of feeling good, fill each moment with meaning, integrity, responsibility, discipline and love. Then you'll know the lasting joy of truly feeling great. -- Ralph Marston Text Box: It seems fitting this week to talk about some of the history surrounding Louisa May Alcott’s book “Little Women,” which will be on stage at LH this weekend. After being encouraged by her publisher to write a book for girls, Louisa May Text Box: Alcott wrote this famous novel in 1868 at the age of 35 while she was living with her family at “Orchard House” in Concord, Massachusettes. “Little Women” is based on Louisa and her sisters’ coming of age; each character is modeled after Text Box: Louisa (Jo) and her three sisters, Anna (Meg), Elizabeth (Beth), and May (Amy). “Jo March was the first American juvenile heroine to act from her own individuality ; a living, breathing person rather than the continued on p. 2

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Text Box: A Short History of “Little Women”