Mary FitzSimons

High school English teacher. Mom. Observer. Lover of words, nature, adventure.

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@kyleredford Kyle, I’m so so sorry. Sending love and strength to you, your amazing family, and all whose lives Jamie touched.

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@MariaBartiromo @MorningsMaria @FoxBusiness @PuppyPartiesNYC @minniedoodle Any abortion, even that of a dog’s birthday party, is wrong wrong wrong.

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@kathrynallenmd Best wishes in your run!

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"Every step you take is forever." Scary as shit. (from McCarthy's No Country for Old Men)

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Is it true?? Is Blood Meridian set to film in 2011? Who the bloody hell will be the Judge?

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Cool. 4 of 50 states are associated w/ a Coen Bros' film: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/10/27/the-united-states-of-movi_n_774741.html

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What's up with those rhythmically challenged people in group exercise classes? Why the hell can't they find the beat??

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I've come to the conclusion that, in sports, it's better never to have loved, than to have loved and lost.

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Ready to celebrate the 3 day weekend--Columbus, er, indiginous peoples' day! (Columbus or Colombus? or Colon?) y, !Vamos Gigantes!

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Finished the scariest story I've ever read. My hands are shaking. Joyce Carol Oates' "Where Are You Going." Can I assign this to students?

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"They carved no hopeful verse upon his tombstone, for his dying hour was gloom." Thanks, Hawthorne--fun to discuss this story w/ students.

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Would rather crawl over a desert of broken glass and dive into a pool of rubbing alcohol than grade this stack of senior essays.

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Vamos frickin Gigantes!!!

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Zombiland on Netflix Instant was a kick-ass surprise. Double tap!

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Atheists for Jesus.

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"...out of the sleep of mild people, into the rippling water." Ya!! Re-reading Deliverance for my new class, American Gothic.

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Me of little faith!!

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"A community of hip observers is a scary and depressing thing." (JD Salinger)

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"No, no, no, no, no. I can't. I can't teach. It killed me. Those nice kids stunned my brain...It was death on toast." N Baker, I love you!

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OK--Just finished Nicholson Baker's The Anthologist. About a poet with writer's block. Bloody loved it!