Mama(e) in Translation

2 sons, 2 languages, 2 countries, 2 "worlds" (work/home), 2 PhDs. Where translation and "in-between-ness" have become a way of life. Now with 2 cats & 2 Universities!

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Here in Brazil #3: Wedding Album

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This is how the church looked (and this is a fairly conservative decoration for Brazilian standards, there are usually tons of different ki...
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Saturday, December 24, 2005

Shoe Bloggin' (For Manuela)

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Manuela, from Thin Pink Line often posts pictures of her gorgeous shoes, so here's my turn! And of course I dedicate this post to you ...
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Here in Brazil #2: "Mirror Mirror..." or Good and Bad News

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[note: I wrote this on Thursday morning (12/22), and other things have happened since, but I still want to keep this post the way I wrote it...
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Friday, December 23, 2005

Merry Christmas from our family to yours

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After a week without internet access (that was hard!), I finally will have two days with high speed internet here at my in-laws’. Then, on S...
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Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Speechless

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Remember that one lone job application I sent in late November? I got an email today that they are interested in setting up a phone intervie...
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Friday, December 09, 2005

Here in Brazil #1

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I inaugurate this series of posts with a very quick one. Since I got here on Wednesday afternoon, I only left the house once, I spent the wh...
Wednesday, December 07, 2005

And I was worried about the kids...

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Well, here I am, in balmy Brazil... The temperature is in the 70s with a nice breeze. I promise to soon begin my series of "Here in Bra...
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Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Traveling and Sick children

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Guess what? Yesterday Kelvin got sick, with a stomach flu... He vomited all night from Sunday to Monday, and again late afternoon yesterday,...
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Monday, December 05, 2005

About Airports (bonus question at the end - please respond!)

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(note, I started writing this last Wednesday, 11/30 but only got to finish it today) Have you ever been twice to an airport in 3 days? And ...
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Saturday, December 03, 2005

Miscelaneous Thoughts

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(I haven't spell-checked this, forgive me if there are typos. It is 2 am after all) I've wanted to post for days now... there are so...
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Wednesday, November 30, 2005

"Brazilian" Thanksgiving

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(Table decoration courtesy of my sister in law) This most American of holidays was ...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2005

Thankful and Hopeful - My First Meme!

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For the first time ever, I have been tagged with a "meme," so now I feel I really "belong" in the blogging community! ;D...
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Sunday, November 20, 2005

Musings from an Accidental Applicant

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Phew! I'm so tired! Who knew that one little application would be so time consuming? I spent the whole day mulling over the cover letter...
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Thursday, November 17, 2005

Go Academic Bloggers!/ News (!?)

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A while back I responded to Rebecca A. Goetz' questionnaire for/about academics who blog, and now she has published an article about blo...
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Wednesday, November 16, 2005

Non-poor privilege/ Children's public behavior Links

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I wish I had more time to write about the many ideas that float in and out of my mind every day, but I'm usually too busy working on the...
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Monday, November 14, 2005

Happy Anniversary, Blog!!

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It's been one year today. It was all it took for me to become very addicted to blogging and blog reading. (It actually took much less th...
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The downside of gardening...

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Gardening is not for the faint of heart. At least not here in the Northern Hemisphere. I think Fall is beautiful, but I have learned to drea...
Wednesday, November 09, 2005

I am a feminist because...

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Yes, I decided to utter the new "F" word in my blog. The title is an attempt to counter the ubiquitous statement "I'm n...
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Friday, November 04, 2005

Nothing Gold Can Stay

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Nothing Gold Can Stay Robert Frost Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But...
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Over a thousand!

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This week my blog had a milestone. I've had over one thousand visits since I installed the sitemeter!! (When did I install it? Back in J...
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I'm a Brazilian immigrant (used to say expatriate, have problems with this word now), living in the U.S. since 1996 with my husband and two sons (born in March 2002 and May 2004). I'm a mother, first and foremost, -- mamãe in my mother-tongue, hence the (e) of the blog title -- but after "ten years and two sons" I finally finished my Ph.D. in literature in 2008. After six years away from teaching (including a year home/cyber schooling my sons - 2009-10), I'm finally back in higher-education. I've been blogging here for eleven years, so welcome to my site and feel free to stay for a while and look around. Our lives are a roller coaster, never lacking in ups and downs! ;-)
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