Poetry Friday: Langston Hughes

Mamacita says:  I first heard this poem in high school literature. Tenth grade, sophomore year, in Mrs. Helen Chandler’s class, she who taught Claude Akins, the Bedford Celebrity.. In retrospect, I know that we treated her dreadfully. She was quite … Continue reading

Quotation Saturday

Mamacita says:  I’m going up to Indianapolis today with my mother and my daughter, to my lovely niece Stephanie’s baby shower.  I hope she likes what I got for her. It’s not what anybody would call a “conventional” baby shower … Continue reading