Accidental Vaccination
In honor of the upcoming New Year, Buggs over at her blog listed a bunch of drinking quotes (funniest one: " I'd rather have a bottle in front o... read more
6 months ago
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Subcategories: Early Childhood K through 12 Teachers
Braces for Words
I know that since the know-it-all late 60's (in reality the "know-nothing" era of the 20th century, aka Dark Ages redux), paying attention t... read more
4 months ago
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Crazywords
Growing up bilingual, I found certain German expressions downright hilarious:Bauchspeicheldruese = stomach spittle gland = pancreasMutterkuchen = moth... read more
5 months ago
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Cute Doesn't Qualify as Carte Blanche
(A vent after a trip to the mall.) Just bec. your daughter is on first glance a cute little 2 year old "doll" doesn't mean she has license ... read more
9 months ago
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Forged Santa
As a first generation German-American kid used to celebrating 4 weeks of Advent and opening the presents on Xmas Eve, I had a slightly unconventional ... read more
6 months ago
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Petpeeve Porridge
1. Idiot Drivers. I'm tired of behind-the-wheel toddlers-gone-2-seed, people who live in NarcissistVille, acting like they're the Lone Ran... read more
10 months ago
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Precocious Prescience
When I was 3 and we were living in ALA, we were driving thru the industrial area of town one day, me lying in the back seat, gazing out the window at ... read more
9 months ago
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Reality & Nuance
I once read the memoir of a German gal who had attended one of the Nazis' elite highschools. I'll never forget her writing that especially one o... read more
7 months ago
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Shootin' Mselves in the Foot?
Sloshing around in some backissues of "Slate" today, I found this: "Our modern skulls house a Stone Age mind," as Cosmides' and Tooby's primer on evo... read more
6 months ago
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Strange Siblings
Long ago, I hoped to become an etymologist (no, not an eNtymologist, tho loving beetles and butterflies, I also briefly considered that), b... read more
10 months ago
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