February 4, 2012 – 12:12 am
Mamacita says: Back in the day (when dinosaurs roamed the earth) every American student knew hundreds of songs, all the same songs, for the most part. Every Wednesday morning, kids all over the town would gather in their school’s auditorium, or cafeteria, and sing. In my little grade school, it was called the All-School Sing. [...]
January 4, 2012 – 5:17 am
Mamacita says: Let’s start the New Year with some opinionated rants. I am not an A-list blogger/social network updater. I’ve always been more than just a little bit quirky and nerdy, and I still am. I don’t care. I’ve never been cool. Not then, not now. I don’t care. (much) In my Reader/friend list/etc. are [...]
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December 11, 2011 – 8:32 pm
Mamacita says: If someone could please tell me why we should continue to put up with, ie enable, adults who feel they’ve somehow got a right to be jerks in public, I’d appreciate knowing. I’m not talking about people who start World Wars or draw blood. I’m talking about people who get in the [...]
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December 3, 2011 – 10:02 pm
Mamacita says: It worries me that so many of our students don’t have enough schema to make simple connections – at least, what were once considered simple connections. You know. Those people, places, events, and stories that EVERYBODY knows? Or, rather, these days, knew. . . . The universe is incomprehensible only to those [...]
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October 23, 2011 – 8:13 pm
Mamacita says: I worry about the future. I worry about the future for different reasons than most people’s reasons. I worry about the future because present generations aren’t learning about the past. Seriously. Our students don’t seem to have anything to make connections to, these days. They believe ridiculous things on Facebook updates. They don’t [...]
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October 20, 2011 – 2:38 am
Mamacita says: I’m going to miss the huge shagbark hickory tree in the front yard (we’re moving) but I am so tired of walking on nuts. I’m tired of hearing them flop and fall all over the place. I’m tired of a constant barrage of nuts trying to dent the car. I’m tired of my [...]
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October 10, 2011 – 7:27 pm
Mamacita says: Here are Ten Things I Haven’t Done Yet. Still. At this point, why hurry? 1. I still haven’t ever used an ATM machine. Someone told me you had to put money in there to get money out. Well, that lets me out of that one. 2. Oprah’s off the air now, so my [...]
September 29, 2011 – 7:45 pm
Mamacita says: I hate to think I’m turning into a fogey, or, even worse, am already there, but it seems to me that people are getting more and more ignorant by the minute. It doesn’t seem as though they’re doing it accidentally, or against their will, either; it seems as if they’re happy being ignorant [...]
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August 15, 2011 – 9:48 pm
Mamacita says: I never hear the word “loaf” without remembering the last junior high dance I ever chaperoned. I always loved to chaperone those little dances, even though we were not paid for doing so, unlike the teachers who worked the ball games and got the big bucks. . . .Okay, let’s not go there. [...]
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