Mamacita says: Finally. Someone has finally asked me a question I’ve wished for years someone would ask. It’s a question that’s right up there with Ed McMahon asking if he could come inside and give me a surprise. (Shut up, pervs.) Someone asked me what I really wanted to do in my classroom. What do [...]
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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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December 7, 2010 – 1:05 pm
Mamacita says: Glee makes me want to sing. Glee even has the power to make me think I CAN sing. But that’s beside the point. When I watch Glee, I switch back and forth with my point of view. Sometimes, I’m one of the students, and then I absorb the wonder of having a safe [...]
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Mamacita says: I hate to admit this, but this was my attitude about my kids’ grades, kind of. . . . Factor in individuality, talent, brains, work habits, etc, and you can’t help but have a set of expectations, and expectations should be met. I know that there are exceptions to this and most other [...]
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January 25, 2010 – 10:08 pm
Mamacita says: Oh, I am such a backwards, provincial thing! 1. I still have never used an ATM machine. I have a feeling it might be a detrimental skill for me to learn. 2. I still have never watched a single Survivor-type show. They all seem more like fraternity hazings to me. 3. I’ve still [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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Mamacita says: My obsession with writing has extended itself over into Quotation Saturday! 1. There’s nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein. –Walter Wellesley “Red” Smith 2. The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable [...]
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Mamacita says: 1. I’m tired. 2. I have forty essays to grade before I can go to bed. 3. It’s almost 3 a.m. 4. They are not good essays. 5. They are, in fact, terrible essays. 6. Spell-check is not your friend. Spell-check is not anybody’s friend. Spell-check will stab you in the back and [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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November 29, 2008 – 3:21 am
Mamacita says: I baked three more pies tonight; the cherry pie turned out fine, but the two pecan pies boiled over and the bottom of my oven is covered with sticky carmelized sugar and the whole house smells like “Is something burning?” I had to open the patio doors to let the smoke out; I [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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November 24, 2008 – 12:48 am
Mamacita says: 1. I intended to put up my Christmas tree today but what with sleeping till noon one thing after another, I didn’t do it. 2. I intended to get that huge, ever-growing stack of essays scored, but I went to Arby’s with my husband and his mother and then came home and sewed [...]
October 8, 2008 – 6:02 am
Mamacita says: The new Carnival of Education is up, over at DetentionSlip.org. Get over there NOW and get all educated about what’s going on at school these days. Was there another debate tonight? Yeah, I’ll quote my idol Dr. Perry Cox and say, “I care so little I almost passed out.” I’ll just wait until [...]
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