December 29, 2009 – 12:21 am
Mamacita says:
. . . interrupting my post-Christmas blues, my wallowing in Love Actually, my longing for visits from family, and my dread of taking down all my holiday decorations, with the Twelve Rules of Christmas, just for you:
1. Christmas is always better than you thought it would be, even if it’s not.
2. Christmas brings people [...]
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December 23, 2009 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: My father had an 8mm movie camera.
Every Christmas morning, he would sloooowly set up the monster lights that burned so hot and so brightly, they half-blinded us and heated up the whole house.
Then he would slooowly position himself with the camera, so as to get the best shot of his children running into [...]
September 23, 2009 – 11:08 pm
Mamacita says:
By request (ask, and ye shall receive) here is the persimmon pudding recipe again.
Persimmons don’t grow in too many places, so chances are good that most of you have never heard of them. However, southern Indiana is a persimmon tree’s favorite home, and the trees grow healthy and prolific here. My fantastic and generous [...]
September 17, 2009 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: part of this post is from another post that I deleted before I wrote down the date. I’m so tech savvy and organized.
This semester, I will have to say that most of my students have been exceptionally fine. Lovely, hard-working, sincere people who genuinely want to improve themselves, so they can improve their [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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August 4, 2009 – 11:56 pm
Is bread the better for kneading? So is the heart. Knead it then by spiritual exercises; or God must knead it by afflictions. ~Augustus William Hare and Julius Charles Hare
Mamacita says: My family always knew when I’d had a particularly rough day in the public school; almost the very minute I got home, I would [...]
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Obi’s Sister has tagged me for a meme. It’s been a while since I’ve done one of these, and I will have to say that not only do I learn things about my friends that I honestly didn’t know before; I learn things about myself that I probably knew but had filed away somewhere and [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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January 28, 2009 – 3:52 pm
Mamacita says: As I sit at the dining room table with my new laptop Hal and look across the living room and out the big window there, I can see our huge shagbark hickory tree. Today, of course, it’s covered with snow. The raised flower bed around its trunk is buried in [...]
January 6, 2009 – 12:35 am
Mamacita says:
1. My sourdough starter is over twenty years old. The bread is delicious. Whenever I use it – and it’s been a while; the starter is currently residing in the freezer – I think about pioneer families, with starters that went back for generations; some starters made the long trip across the sea, even. [...]
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December 27, 2008 – 10:57 pm
Mamacita says: When the kids came home on Christmas Eve, I was ready with Christmas cookies. I knew the children were glad to be home for Christmas, but I didn’t really understand all the laughing coming from the kitchen.
Then they ran for their cameras and took pictures of the cookies. Or, rather, one of [...]
December 16, 2008 – 12:41 am
Mamacita says:
1. We’re supposed to be on the receiving end of a mighty and majestic ice storm tonight. I hope not. I’ve got candy canes for my students tomorrow. I am hoping, since so many of them didn’t do well on the final, that when they look at their test and the “This sucks!” begins, [...]
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