Mamacita says: 1. You’re never too old for a popsicle. 2. 8-gig SD cards for nine dollars? I’ll take two, please. Thank you, Amazon. 3. Stinky ladybug beetles are starting to drop down on my furniture. Where did they live all winter? Wait, don’t tell me. I bet I don’t want to know. 4. Educating [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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Posted in Books, Education, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, love, Mamacita, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Movies, Scheiss Weekly, Ten Things Tuesday
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March 28, 2009 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: Who among us doesn’t need help with forgiveness? We all need to learn to forgive, and to learn to be forgiven, and to learn to cope when we get neither. Learning to forgive is one of my (many) shortcomings, for even though I try and have tried all my life to be a [...]
March 25, 2009 – 10:56 pm
Mamacita says: My friend Jim, who used to write at Patriside about the life of a single dad, has moved. He had to. He’s not a single dad any more! He now writes at Hogepotte, and he and his lovely wife Mara take turns posting about the ups and downs – but mostly the joys [...]
March 25, 2009 – 12:31 am
The bottoms of my feet remember every sidewalk crack. I can close my eyes and relive the sensation of speeding down the block on my roller skates, sensing every crack and bump and wad of moss in my path, and adjusting my feet to them without even thinking about it. My feet knew. The soles [...]
March 23, 2009 – 10:27 pm
Mamacita says: I love Notting Hill and Love, Actually, so when the same guys made Definitely, Maybe, I was intrigued. When the film’s price finally got down to under ten bucks where I could rationalize buying it, I snarfed that baby right up and brought it home, where it sat on my DVD shelf waiting [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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Posted in Education, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Literature, Mamacita, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Movies, music, Quotation Saturday, Scheiss Weekly, schools, The Arts, Video
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March 22, 2009 – 11:53 pm
Mamacita says: 1. Family snapshots are still strewn all over the living room floor. They’ll be there until the family gets here to go through them. A word of advice: label all of your pictures while you still remember names and dates. You think you’ll always remember, but you won’t. 2. There are very few [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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Posted in Books, Family, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Mamacita, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, Night owl, Scheiss Weekly, Things I Haven't Done Yet, work ethic
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Mamacita says: Yesterday WAS the first day of spring, you know, not to be confused with the first spring day, which, as Henry Van Dyke tells us, can differ by as great as a month. The weather here in southern Indiana has been lovely: warm and sunny and breezy, and there are crocuses blooming all [...]
Mamacita says: We used to be big fans of Noble Roman’s Pizza. We’d drive thirty miles to the nearest city, just to eat there. We felt this way for many years. Then one day we drove up there to Noble Roman’s, and when our pizza arrived, we discovered that somebody in corporate had decided to [...]
March 17, 2009 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: 1. Why does every packaged food item contain so much sodium? It’s ridiculous! Even the supposedly “diet” or “healthy” stuff is loaded full of salt. I’m serious; why IS that? It’s really difficult – and in most cases, it’s IMPOSSIBLE – to find salt-free processed food. Did the salt industry make a deal [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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Posted in Family, grief, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Mamacita, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, music, Scheiss Weekly, Ten Things Tuesday, Traditions
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Mamacita says: 1. I haven’t picked the ten thousand pictures we’re going through, off the living room floor yet. We’re still looking at them. Plus, we’re expecting family to come down any day now and look through them with us. 2. I haven’t sent out any “Thank you for your sympathy” cards yet, but I’ve [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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Posted in BlogHer2008, BlogHer2009, children, Family, grief, Jane Goodwin, JaneG, Mamacita, Mamacita Says, MamacitaG, My daughter, My son, Scheiss Weekly, Things I Haven't Done Yet
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