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Happy Father’s Day, Daddy

June 20, 2010 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:   My father died several years ago: a long, slow, drawn-out process that left my mother and my siblings and me drained and sad, and grateful when the final ending finally ended. I loved my father, with all his faults, and charms, and whimsicalities, and more faults, and understanding, and lack [...]

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John Orman, 1949-2009

July 15, 2009 – 10:58 am

Mamacita says:

Way over in Connecticut, one of Fairfield University’s most beloved professors of all time has died.
Those of you who are into the political scene may remember John Orman as the man who challenged Senator Joseph Lieberman for the 2006 Democratic Senate nomination. Others may remember John as the author of numerous books about [...]

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Ten Things Tuesday

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 with [...]

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Things I Haven’t Done Yet

March 15, 2009 – 9:56 pm

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 got them [...]

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Things I Haven’t Done Yet

March 8, 2009 – 12:05 am

Mamacita says:  It’s time for another round of Things I Haven’t Done Yet. 
1.  Spring FORWARD; fall BACK.  I’ve changed a few clocks that I look at regularly, but elsewhere in the house?  Not yet.  Also, I’m too lazy I’m too short to reach most of the wall clocks, so they don’t need to be sprung [...]

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Quotation Saturday: Grief and its Aftermath

March 7, 2009 – 12:02 am

Mamacita says:
1.  It’s so curious: one can resist tears and “behave” very well in the hardest hours of grief.  but then someone makes you a friendly sign behind a window, or one notices that a flower that was in bud only yesterday has suddenly blossomed, or a letter slips form a drawer. . . and [...]

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