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I Worry About the Future

October 23, 2011 – 8:13 pm

Mamacita says:  I worry about the future. I worry about the future for different reasons than most people’s reasons.  I worry about the future because present generations aren’t learning about the past. Seriously.  Our students don’t seem to have anything to make connections to, these days.  They believe ridiculous things on Facebook updates.  They don’t [...]

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Nuts and Balls

October 20, 2011 – 2:38 am

Mamacita says: I’m going to miss the huge shagbark hickory tree in the front yard (we’re moving) but I am so tired of walking on nuts. I’m tired of hearing them flop and fall all over the place. I’m tired of a constant barrage of nuts trying to dent the car. I’m tired of my [...]

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Ten Things I Still Haven’t Done Yet

October 10, 2011 – 7:27 pm

Mamacita says: Here are Ten Things I Haven’t Done Yet.  Still.  At this point, why hurry? 1.  I still haven’t ever used an ATM machine.  Someone told me you had to put money in there to get money out.  Well, that lets me out of that one. 2.  Oprah’s off the air now, so my [...]

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Wherein I Mourn the Death of Common Sense, and Admit to my Fogeyness

September 29, 2011 – 7:45 pm

Mamacita says:  I hate to think I’m turning into a fogey, or, even worse,  am already there, but it seems to me that people are getting more and more ignorant by the minute.  It doesn’t seem as though they’re doing it accidentally, or against their will, either; it seems as if they’re happy being ignorant  [...]

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Roast Beef, Grilled Cheese, & Traditions

September 17, 2011 – 10:52 pm

Mamacita asks:  Where do these family traditions get started? Remember that anecdote about the young bride whose husband asked her why she cut the beef roast in half before she put it in the pan? She told him she did it that way because her mother always did it that way. So the young husband [...]

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Where Were You When The Planes Hit?

September 9, 2011 – 12:05 am

My tribute to Craig Damian Lilore can be found here. Mamacita says:  I’m guessing that many most bloggers will be posting tributes this weekend, and telling the blogosphere ‘where we were’ when the planes hit the World Trade Center. Here is mine. This is actually the second third fourth fifth sixth seventh time I’ve posted [...]

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Helicopter Parents of College Students? You’ve GOT To Be Kidding!

August 16, 2011 – 9:57 pm

Dear Helicopter Parents of College Students: Your kid is raised. Stop raising him. If he’s still an immature weenie, let life hand him/her some consequences. It’s about time somebody did. Love, Professor MeanJane P.S. Your kid is nineteen years old and still can’t remember to bring a pencil to school. And no, he can’t borrow [...]

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To Literally Pinch a Loaf. . . .

August 15, 2011 – 9:48 pm

Mamacita says:  I never hear the word “loaf” without remembering the last junior high dance I ever chaperoned.  I always loved to chaperone those little dances, even though we were not paid for doing so, unlike the teachers who worked the ball games and got the big bucks. . . .Okay, let’s not go there. [...]

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Say Hello to My Little Friend

August 2, 2011 – 2:08 am

Mamacita says:  This is a caffeine molecule. We hang out far too much.  I had thought about writing a humorous essay about how I’ve been known to drive to WalMart at 3 a.m. for Diet Coke because we were out and I couldn’t wait for morning to go get some. But that isn’t really funny [...]

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Are Our Children Really Overprotected? I Think They Are.

July 24, 2011 – 10:50 pm

Mamacita says:  Are we protecting our children too much?  Everything is so bland, so effortless, so sanitary, so entitled, so sterilized, so soft, so completely without risk, requiring little or no talent or skill, so full of self-esteem and so lacking in merit, that it is little wonder so many of our young adults wouldn’t [...]

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