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Beware the Ides of March

March 15, 2011 – 12:05 am

Mamacita quotes from Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar:   Act 1, scene 2, 15–19 Caesar: Who is it in the press that calls on me? I hear a tongue shriller than all the music Cry “Caesar!” Speak; Caesar is turn’d to hear. Soothsayer: Beware the Ides of March. Caesar: What man is that? Brutus: A soothsayer bids [...]

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People With Small Vocabularies Also Have Small. . . . Brains. *

January 16, 2011 – 4:01 am

I can’t help but wonder if all this brouhaha about dumbing down the vocabulary in classic literature right now has at least part of its origin in the sad fact that many of our parents and teachers can’t understand the big words. This isn’t funny; it’s unforgiveable. The more words we know, the better able [...]

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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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Halloween is Rocky Horror Time!

October 31, 2010 – 11:32 am

Mamacita says: “Great Scott!” Halloween has been and gone but it’s still THAT SEASON, which means many things, one of which is that I have a giant bowl half-filled with Tootsie Roll Pops and Hershey bars on my coffee table, and another of which is that I am once again compelled to obsess over my [...]

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Them There Words What Be Correct

September 15, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  It’s 2:30 in the morning, and I have to get up in a few hours and go to school, and be all enthusiastic about punctuation. The thing is, I AM enthusiastic about punctuation. It’s important. It tell us when to pause, and when to stop. It tells us when to end a sentence [...]

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You Want A Creation Theory? I’ll Give You A Creation Theory!

July 19, 2010 – 12:05 am

On my Flickr page, there is a picture of a dulcimer. Mamacita says:  Back in the day, all middle school/junior high students had to take shop and home ec. They entered high school, and life, knowing how to use a hammer and nails, how to put together a simple meal, how to sew a straight [...]

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Making the Grade. . . .

July 11, 2010 – 12:02 am

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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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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Facts Are The Enemy of Truth

May 22, 2010 – 6:12 pm

Repost from May 19, 2006.  Because it was on my mind.  It’s always on my mind. This is the irrational season When love blooms bright and wild, Had Mary been filled with reason, There’d have been no room for the child. –by Madeleine L’Engle Madeleine has been one of my idols for many years.  I [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Curiosity

March 13, 2010 – 1:36 am

Mamacita says:  Children are naturally curious.  With each passing day, an infant is more and more curious about what’s going on in the world around him/her.  When is this happening?  When is that happening?  And, later, WHY is this happening, or not?  Add to this everything in between, and it’s little wonder that it’s so [...]

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