Mamacita says: This topic has been on my mind lately (as usual), so I’m re-running this post from March of 2008.
Oh please, society, let us learn from the past, just a little bit?
“Francie thought it was the most beautiful church in Brooklyn. It was made of old gray stone and had twin spires [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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February 24, 2010 – 12:23 am
Mamacita says: These particular scum-sucking spawn “humanoids” are once again being discussed in the Blogosphere, so I’m re-running my own take on them. I refer to Michael and Debi Pearl.
I beg of you all, do not buy any books by these people. (link removed on advice from much smarter person than me.) [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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February 15, 2010 – 12:10 am
Mamacita says: There is nothing on the planet as important as our kids, and we really need to keep aware of what’s going on in their world. Even when we don’t like to admit that these things are happening.
Oftimes, those things that are the hardest to believe, are the very things that are really happening.
Look [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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February 6, 2010 – 7:27 pm
Mamacita says: When I was a little girl, Dad would often wink at Mom after dinner, and say “Now I’ve got gas; I guess I’ll go out and sit on the car.” And she would roll her eyes and say that HER family didn’t talk like that.
And I would be all happy because, hey. Free [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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December 25, 2009 – 12:48 am
Mamacita says: Merry Christmas. Happy Hanukkah. Fruitful Kwanzaa. Happy Holidays. Peaceful December. Happy Solstice.
Please pick one, or two, and apply them to yourself and to your family.
Christmas Eve is such a magical time. It’s all ahead of us, you see. To paraphrase Katie, age 8, in What Child Is [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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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 [...]
December 22, 2009 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says: Do you know what I miss, especially at this time of the year? Variety shows.
Those weekly shows hosted by Ed Sullivan, Andy Williams, The Smothers Brothers, Sonny and Cher, Glen Campbell, Dean Martin, Carol Burnett, Perry Como, Flip Wilson. . . Laugh-In. . . The Muppet Show. . . . John Gary. [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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December 15, 2009 – 12:05 am
Mamacita says:
My all-time favorite Christmas movie is still Love Actually. That doesn’t mean, however, that I don’t like any other Christmas movies.
There’s nothing like a zany Christmas movie like “Mixed Nuts” to really get me in the holiday mood. It’s Steve Martin back when he was cute and funny and cool, like WAYYYY before [...]
By Jane Goodwin
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December 9, 2009 – 12:18 am
Mamacita says: It is WINDY tonight. The kind that turns an umbrella inside-out, for those of you who carry umbrellas. Personally, I’d rather drown standing up.
We are NOT rednecks; I swear to you we’re not. We’re fairly refined. We bathe regularly, have all our teeth, and use dictionary words. Thesaurus words, even.
We do, [...]
November 11, 2009 – 12:05 am
Mean ol’ Miz Roberts, in seventh grade, made us all memorize this poem. I still know it by heart.
Thank you, Miz Roberts.