2011 May — Scheiss Weekly

Back Off – Your Kids Don’t Need An Adult Best Friend

May 27, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: I can remember being really little, and I can remember my parents playing with me. (Those are my parents; aren’t they pretty?) They played with me whenever they could, but it wasn’t very often. I can remember Mom sitting on the floor, playing paper dolls with us, and showing us how to dress [...]

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Say It With Me: The Emperor is Naked

May 25, 2011 – 3:36 am

Mamacita says: Little wonder that our kids are so confused about what they’re “supposed” to look like. Teen magazines that used to give us ADVICE about our appearance are now telling kids that unless they look like (insert talentless celebrity here), they’re hideous. AND, many kids have no home backup to instill some self-respect and [...]

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Frog, Frogs, Arlo & Susie, The Frog Prince, and Me

May 24, 2011 – 3:00 am

Mamacita says: Sometimes I wonder how I ever decided to become a teacher, what with my lower-than-low opinion of people who aren’t interested in lifelong learning, my intolerance and complete disdain of willful ignorance, my disregard of any rule that I personally find stupid, and my total lack of interest in staying inside any kind [...]

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The Cream Deserves the Perks. The Dregs Do Not. Nice People Rule

May 19, 2011 – 6:00 pm

Mamacita says: Most teens are far nobler and kind than the media would have us believe. The creeps, jerks, and bullies are the minority. I wish this minority didn’t get so much publicity. I know! Let’s give the majority of our attention, time, and money to the nice kids! What a novel thought. The lowest [...]

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I Go To A TED Presentation & Come Home A Better Person

May 15, 2011 – 6:57 pm

Yesterday, I attended TEDxBloomington. I learned more in one day than I’ve learned in the past 20 years. Well pootie-doo, they removed all the videos! When they put them back in again, I’ll show you my favorite one. Add to it the fact that I met several old friends and made several new ones, and [...]

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Some End-of Semester Thoughts

May 13, 2011 – 8:59 pm

Mamacita says: I teach in a community college, and I have found that my hardest-working students are, for the most part, the older ones, the ones who have been out of school for many years, the ones who have been busy out in the workforce, or raising children. Now, for one reason or another, they’ve [...]

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Reasons why I should sue & get lots of money from people. And not have to work hard.

May 10, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: I’m on vacation right now, and it only took one day for my body to revert to its normal vampiric timing. In other words, it’s noon and I just got up. Don’t tell anybody, ok? They might think I’m lazy. I’m not really lazy. It’s just that my energy comes out at night. [...]

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Quotation Saturday, on Sunday: Mothers

May 8, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: This Sunday will be, appropriately enough, a day filled with mothers. Mine, my sisters, my niece, grandmothers, aunts, daughters, cousins, me. . . . all mothers, and several of them more than one KIND of mother. (no, not THAT kind of mother. Perhaps you were thinking of YOUR family?) Many mothers. Once upon [...]

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The Queen’s “We” Loves Morel Mushrooms

May 3, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: It’s that time again. That’s right; it’s finals week. Oh wait, that wasn’t what I meant to say. It’s that time again. The morel mushrooms are here. My husband still speaks wistfully of the day he and the kids visited his step-grandmother Margaret (she whom John Dillinger once tried to carjack. . . [...]