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Your Ma: A Critical Perspective
There has been a tendency in recent times to recalibrate the matriarch by endowing her with glamour, sophistication or sex appeal. Unapologetically bucking this trend, however, is your Ma: a gormless, rotund but ultimately lovable woman, who makes a persuasive case that the best path forward for the Irish Mammy lies not in elegance or refinement, but in understatement and verisimilitude. Read the rest of this entry »
Your Ma: A Critical Perspective
There has been a tendency in recent times to recalibrate the matriarch by endowing her with glamour, sophistication or sex appeal. Unapologetically bucking this trend, however, is your Ma: a gormless, rotund but ultimately lovable woman, who makes a persuasive case that the best path forward for the Irish Mammy lies not in elegance or refinement, but in understatement and verisimilitude. Read the rest of this entry »
YOUR MA: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
There has been a tendency in recent times to reinvent the matriarch by endowing her with glamour, sophistication or sex appeal. Unapologetically bucking that trend, however, is your Ma: a gormless, rotund but ultimately lovable woman, who makes a persuasive case that the best path forward for the Mammy lies not in elegance or refinement, but in understatement and verisimilitude. Read the rest of this entry »
YOUR MA: A CRITICAL PERSPECTIVE
There has been a tendency in recent times to reinvent the matriarch by endowing her with glamour, sophistication or sex appeal. Unapologetically bucking that trend, however, is your Ma: a gormless, rotund but ultimately lovable woman, who makes a persuasive case that the best path forward for the Mammy lies not in elegance or refinement, but in understatement and verisimilitude. Read the rest of this entry »
HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAMMY!
Today is my mother’s birthday. It’s a special birthday (with a zero on the end) so I decided to buy her a special present. And with the appropriate-present-buying accumen for which I am rightly renowned, it wasn’t long before those ideal gift ideas were just piling up. Read the rest of this entry »