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Political Incorrectness and Me (Fair Warning)

August 8, 2010 – 9:54 pm

Mamacita says:  Many of you will not like this post, and for that, I’m sorry.  Then again, actually, I’m not sorry, because I believe I am right. I welcome anyone’s counter-argument, but if your intention is to enlighten me and change my mind, dream on good luck.
I love airports, and I love riding [...]

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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 our [...]

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Professors Are Mean. Here’s Why.

May 3, 2010 – 11:02 am

Mamacita says: Today is the first day of the rest of your life the last week of the semester – every student’s favorite week, naturally.
I predict that several students will come to class NEXT week, and be all astounded and sputtery that the semester is over and they can’t take the final. [...]

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The Queen’s “We” Loves Morel Mushrooms

April 12, 2010 – 6:51 pm

Mamacita says:  It’s that time again.
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. . . .) and she shared with them her unbelievable and, naturally, SECRET, morel mushroom patch.
Remember now, Hoosiers do not share this kind of secret with [...]

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Sunday Songlist, Territory, and the. . . . RED PEN

February 28, 2010 – 5:20 pm

Mamacita says:  the weekend is almost over – indeed, on Sunday afternoon, the weekend is as good as over because that’s when the depression starts, although it’s not as bad as it used to be.  More than anything else, it’s the “have to get up in the morning as normal people always do” that hits [...]

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