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!

Tuesday, January 31, 2006

My Very Own "Blog Cloud"

I saw this first at ABD mom , and then at Scrivener's I found a link to where I could get it too (it's a site that sells t-shirts ...

Happy New Fear

In this last day of January I want to explain why I didn’t even attempt to write any New Year resolutions. I fear this New Year… B...

Thursday, January 26, 2006

Brazil and the U.S. (intro)

I'm working (at least in my mind so far) on a post about the main differences about my home country, Brazil and the U.S., since whenever...

Wednesday, January 25, 2006

Sick in Chicago

Yes, guess what, during the last 2 hours of our 10 hour and a half flight I started feeling a bit sick. For the first time in my life I vom...

Monday, January 23, 2006

Thank You! & It Was/Is Worth It

I want to thank heartily all the readers who commented, I definitely feel encouraged to continue blogging. I t was worth "complaining...

Friday, January 20, 2006

Blogging Crisis

Sometimes I feel that blogging is almost useless to me, since so few people read this, most of them merely lurkers, as far as I can tell fro...

Monday, January 16, 2006

Here in Brazil #5: My Parents' House

Before I go back to the US and it's too late, I wanted you to be able to vizualize where I am, so here I offer a couple of pictures (I w...

Saturday, January 14, 2006

Random Updates and Thoughts (in lieu of New Year resolutions)

I've been constantly thinking about posting here for the past week, I have even an almost ready post that I typed a week ago (last Satur...

Thursday, January 12, 2006

Delurking Week

I copied the picture from ABDmom, and only after I had uploaded it I thought I didn't like it that much. I'll post it anyway, though...

Vacation Accidents

I haven't been able to post lately but there are tons of things to post about, so I'll start with what I think will yield the shorte...

Thursday, January 05, 2006

Here in Brazil #4 Quick Update or Travels, Birthdays, and Weddings

I’ve been very busy over here. After a week at the beach (we had wonderful weather and enjoyed the beach and each other’s company), on Monda...

Sunday, December 25, 2005

Here in Brazil #3: Wedding Album

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

Saturday, December 24, 2005

Shoe Bloggin' (For Manuela)

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 ...

Here in Brazil #2: "Mirror Mirror..." or Good and Bad News

[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...

Friday, December 23, 2005

Merry Christmas from our family to yours

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...

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Speechless

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...

Friday, December 09, 2005

Here in Brazil #1

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...

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...

Tuesday, December 06, 2005

Traveling and Sick children

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

Monday, December 05, 2005

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

(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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About Me

L: 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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