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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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Quotation Saturday: Christmas Day

December 25, 2010 – 11:55 pm

Mamacita says: Christmas is almost over, except that for people like me, Christmas is never really gone. Today has been lovely, truly lovely. My family, all together again, with food and conversation and games and candles and trees bedecked with twinkling stars . . . . People laugh and say that Christmas is a magical [...]

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Cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude This Thanksgiving Day

November 25, 2010 – 12:05 am

. . . and use it all the days of your life. Thanksgiving isn’t really just one day, you know. It’s just the one day wherein we are all reminded that EVERY day is a day of thanksgiving in one way or another. Some people consider this official Thanksgiving Day to be politically incorrect, but [...]

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Army of Women: Dealing with Life’s Lumps

October 1, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita asks: What does an Army of Women look like? It looks like you. And why should you be interested? Because it could have been you. Maybe it was you. Women remove their bras for many reasons. You know them, so I won’t list them. But I will add this one: so we can check [...]

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Six Word Saturday

August 14, 2010 – 9:38 pm

. . . not ready for school to start. . . .

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How Well Do You Know Your Fairy Tales? Not Disney Versions; I Mean, REAL Fairy Tales?

June 26, 2010 – 6:35 am

Mamacita says: It’s quiz time again! This time, our topic is fairy tales, which were, as everyone once knew but few people remember now, never intended for children at all. Don’t get me wrong: I love the Disney animated fairy tales, but I’m also a fairy tale purist, and the cleaning up of those gory [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Never Give Up, and Never Surrender *

June 12, 2010 – 2:35 am

Mamacita says: We all need to be reminded sometimes – probably more often than we ARE reminded – that we are only human, and that we can’t do it all by ourselves. Fortunately, as John Donne liked to remind us, no man is an island. This is the key to all education, no matter what [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Rain

May 22, 2010 – 1:29 am

We’ve had nothing but torrential rain for over two weeks. Our grass is so high it can’t be mown with a regular mower; we’ll have to use the tractor and the bush hog. I’ve seen other people who’ve tried to keep their grass mown, but their yards look like a weird combination of nice short [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Short Quotes

April 17, 2010 – 12:47 am

Mamacita says: I’ve got short things on my mind these days: short stories, shortbread, summer shorts, coming up short, playing shortstop, the short stack at Denny’s, the IRS’ short form. . . and other short things even I think are too politically incorrect to share here, although I wish I could. Those of you who [...]

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The Jig is Up

April 2, 2010 – 6:02 pm

Mamacita says: I got fourteen emails from people who suspected it wasn’t I who posted that very excellent April 1 post on this blog yesterday. Does this mean my writing style is that well known, or that the guest post yesterday was so much better, people instantly knew it couldn’t have been mine? Also, is [...]