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, February 28, 2006

Literary Mama Blog Book Tour Poem

I remember the time I first encountered Literary Mama in the web... I had recently given birth for the second time and just discovered blog...

Sunday, February 26, 2006

The State of the Dissertation - Update #4

I don't know if the title sounds good, but I'm "stealing" it from 11D who had a few "The State of the Blog" pos...

Wednesday, February 22, 2006

To-Do List

I really need a to do list right now because there are so many deadlines coming up for me, so since I've seen some blogging friends do i...

Friday, February 17, 2006

Brand New Technology and Innovation Meme

Edited to add a question about wireless networking to question 1 :) I had been thinking of creating a meme based on my Valentine's Day p...

Thursday, February 16, 2006

Happy Birthday Cake for Midlife Mama!

(recipe slightly edited, see note below post) This cake was baked to wish a Happy 45th Birthday to Libby ( Midlife Mama ), a fellow blogging...

Tuesday, February 14, 2006

Technology + Innovation = Love?

This post has been in the works since Oct. 16 05, can you believe it? I thought today would be a fitting day to finally go ahead and finish ...

Bilingual Families site - I have been linked!

I have been recently contacted by Corey Heller, the founder of this Seattle-based and very interesting website: Bicultural Family . She want...

Sunday, February 12, 2006

First Week Back "Home" in the U.S. (The "Eaten Post")

[Original post "eaten" by blogger. I tried to write the unsaved "itemized" part again below... It was started on Thursda...

Saturday, February 11, 2006

This Post is 1 Month Old (from Brazil)

On January 7, I wrote this in my laptop computer while we were at some of our best friends' house for the weekend. It was a Saturday mor...

Thursday, February 09, 2006

Update on Latest Events (and some whining about US healthcare)

Everything went well yesterday in my drive to the airport in NYC. I'm lucky because my kids are used to traveling and behave really well...

Tuesday, February 07, 2006

Tomorrow (Almost Today)

The post I lost on Friday and was trying to rewrite will have to wait (it is an itemized discussion of the things I did in my first week bac...

Sunny Day (in both senses of the word)

Today Kelvin my almost 4 year old (his birthday is a month from Thursday) was so agreeable, so sweet, with a really sunny, radiant dispositi...

Sunday, February 05, 2006

Children's Literature and... the Super Bowl/ the Movies

I generally don't watch television, much less sports (except for soccer in the world cup and some other competitions I shall mention sho...

Saturday, February 04, 2006

Blogger Ate My Latest Post!!!!!!!!!!

I don't know what happened! Blogger was "off the air" this evening and I simply couldn't open my blog. When I was finally ...

Wednesday, February 01, 2006

Amazing T-Shirt Folding Technique!!

OK, since I mentioned t-shirts in the previous post, it seems fitting to link to a recent post by Andi (from Mother Shock ) which is indeed...

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...

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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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