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Where Were You When The Planes Hit?

September 9, 2011 – 12:05 am

My tribute to Craig Damian Lilore can be found here. Mamacita says: I’m guessing that many most bloggers will be posting tributes this weekend, and telling the blogosphere ‘where we were’ when the planes hit the World Trade Center. Here is mine. This is actually the second third fourth fifth sixth seventh time I’ve posted [...]

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April is Poetry Month: Eugene Field

April 16, 2011 – 2:58 am

Eugene Field (The Children’s Poet) Little Boy Blue The little toy dog is covered with dust, But sturdy and staunch he stands, And the little toy soldier is red with rust, And his musket molds in his hands. Time was when the the little toy dog was new, And the soldier was passing fair, And [...]

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April Is Poetry Month: Edwin Arlington Robinson

April 8, 2011 – 12:04 am

Edwin Arlington Robinson Richard Cory Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him; He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim. And he was always quietly arrayed, And he was always human when he talked; But still he fluttered pulses when he said, “Good [...]

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April is Poetry Month: W.H. Auden

April 7, 2011 – 1:30 am

W.H. Auden Mamacita says: If you have seen the movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral,” you are already familiar with W.H. Auden. His haunting and heartbreaking “Funeral Blues” was recited by John Hannah in this film, and it was unforgettable. Funeral Blues Stop all the clocks; cut off the telephone; Prevent the dog from barking [...]

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April is Poetry Month: Conrad Aiken

April 5, 2011 – 2:46 am

Conrad Aiken Bread and Music Music I heard with you was more than music, And bread I broke with you was more than bread. Now that I am without you, all is desolate; All that was once so beautiful is dead. Your hands once touched this table and this silver, And I have seen your [...]

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Center of the Universe, You Say? I Think Not.

February 24, 2011 – 9:48 pm

Mamacita says: All my life I have loathed the expression, “Act your age.” Even as a child I wondered how a person could ‘act’ an age; the best I could ever do was to ‘be’ an age. “Act” always connoted phoniness to me. I totally agree with the little girl in this joke. How can [...]

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Profanity vs. Obscenity

November 12, 2010 – 11:40 pm

Warning: proceed no further if you’re one of those overly sensitive types who is easily offended. You’re no fun, by the way. == Mamacita says: Grammar. I love grammar. It’s such a fantastic segue to. . . well, pretty much anything. A student once asked me if it was true that a person could go [...]

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Happy Father’s Day, Daddy

June 20, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: My father died several years ago: a long, slow, drawn-out process that left my mother and my siblings and me drained and sad, and grateful when the final ending finally ended. I loved my father, with all his faults, and charms, and whimsicalities, and more faults, and understanding, and lack of understanding, [...]

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John Orman, 1949-2009

July 15, 2009 – 10:58 am

Mamacita says: Way over in Connecticut, one of Fairfield University’s most beloved professors of all time has died. Those of you who are into the political scene may remember John Orman as the man who challenged Senator Joseph Lieberman for the 2006 Democratic Senate nomination. Others may remember John as the author of numerous books [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

March 17, 2009 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: 1. Why does every packaged food item contain so much sodium? It’s ridiculous! Even the supposedly “diet” or “healthy” stuff is loaded full of salt. I’m serious; why IS that? It’s really difficult – and in most cases, it’s IMPOSSIBLE – to find salt-free processed food. Did the salt industry make a deal [...]