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Hope is the Thing That Is Left to Us, In a Bad Time

January 13, 2012 – 12:35 pm

Mamacita says: I have discovered another wonderful website: Letters of Note. This site is edited by Shaun Usher, whom I would invite over for dinner every Tuesday and Thursday night if only he knew I existed, but of course he doesn’t, so I can only pay him homage this way. In March of 1973, E. [...]

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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Quotation Saturday: The Presidents Speak

February 19, 2011 – 9:32 pm

Mamacita says: For Presidents’ Day, I thought I’d feature a quotation from each of our presidents. No matter what our personal opinion of a president might be, he is the leader of our nation and the position, if not the person, deserves some respect. 1. To be prepared for war is one of the most [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Imagination

January 22, 2011 – 1:42 am

A lot of Saturdays have come and gone lately without Quotation Saturday. How have we managed to cope, I ask you all. . . . Since I stand firmly with Albert Einstein’s “Imagination is more important than knowledge,” this Saturday’s theme is “imagination.” Take the word apart. Do you see it? IMAGE. People with imagination [...]

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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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Quotation Saturday, on Sunday Again

September 5, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says: You all know by now that I love a good quotation. Words have such mighty and majestic power: they can make us laugh; they can make us cry; they can make us cower in fear, or stand tall with pride, or melt with love. Name it, and words can make us feel or [...]

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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: Stars. . . in your multitudes, scarce to be counted, filling the darkness with order and light. . . .

May 1, 2010 – 1:42 am

Mamacita: I know that the rest of this song is about being inflexible, but these few lines are, indeed, about the stars. (Javert meant well, but was too inflexible about human nature.) Lately there have been a myriad – a veritable constellation, if you will – of pictures of stars, including our own, sent back [...]