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 … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading
Mamacita says: Second day of class, and we’re buried alive in snow, so much so that even the college canceled classes. I don’t believe in omens, but I can’t help thinking, “omen.” I did what I usually do on a … Continue reading
Mamacita says: This is five years old, but it’s still a good random sample of my day. Remember, helping students make connections is my “thing,” but it helps when they have something to connect things to. Sometimes I think a … Continue reading
Mamacita says: Well, my dears, here we all are once again, celebrating another new year with our real life friends and our other real life friends. Six years ago, I didn’t really consider my internet friends to be really and … Continue reading
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 … Continue reading