Friday, April 28, 2006

Mother Talk - It's a Girl

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Last night I was finally able to attend my very first Mother Talk here in Philly and meet Andi Buchanan , writer and also blogger , in per...
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Wednesday, April 26, 2006

Dissertatin' - Update #6 (Mood Swings)

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I wanted to share with you two recent entries in my "Dissertation Journal." Last Thursday (4/20), I wrote: You know, I do care a g...
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Monday, April 24, 2006

Spring Pictures

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Here's my belated post with photos. I started uploading them large (the last ones are the first uploaded), but then decided to have them...
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Saturday, April 22, 2006

Lovely Day and Bloggers Meet up!!

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I shouldn't be writing because I need to sleep, but I really want to share this. Yesterday [actually, Thursday] was a lovely day all aro...
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Thursday, April 20, 2006

Crash (updated)

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I watched Crash last night. Wow, I don't know how to express my feelings and reaction. First, it's very very sad, and I don't l...
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Monday, April 17, 2006

Blogroll Accidentally Erased (now fixed)

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I can't believe I just erased most of the blogroll from my template. I was adding a new blog to it and left the template open for a whil...
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Sunday, April 16, 2006

"Dilemmas of a Mama(e) in Translation"

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This is the title of my latest "One Family One Language" column at the Bilingual/ Bicultural Family Network (BBFN) newsletter. You...
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My First "Son" - Blues' Pictures for Lioness

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This is my dear "first son" Blues... I thought it was high time I posted more pictures of him in the blog, since he made his appea...
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Tuesday, April 11, 2006

Four Years Ago - Just the First Paragraph

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Four Years ago today, my first baby was 1 month and 2 days old, and this was the day, the happy happy day in which he was able to latch on a...
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Reflecting

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Thank you for the kind words of support that those who commented gave me. I felt pretty bad about yesterday's post for the last 24 hours...
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Monday, April 10, 2006

Why? What's the Use? (updated)

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I keep a dissertation journal to help me work through the issues I have from time to time. Perhaps that's why I don't write much abo...
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Sunday, April 09, 2006

The State of the Dissertation - Update #5

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You probably noticed that I am avoiding the subject, even though it's what my life revolves around daily -- but you might not be able to...
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Friday, April 07, 2006

Sixteen Years Ago Today - Continued

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*edited a year later to correct some minor errors* April 7, 1990. Saturday. The week since the previous Friday, that unforgettable March 30...
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Thursday, April 06, 2006

Global Warming and Immigration

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I usually don't get political here -- and it's not that I don't have political views worth discussing, it's just that I don...
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Verdict

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My mother-in-law just called me on skype to let me know my husband almost passed but didn't. He was tied with another guy in first plac...
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Wednesday, April 05, 2006

Suspense

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Tomorrow my husband will know whether he passed the concurso or not (for a teaching position in Brazil). I'm starting to get nervous. W...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2006

Of Academic Conferences and Academic Mothers

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Academic conferences and academic mothers are two topics near and dear to my heart, and they happen to come together nicely in this post :-)...
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Saturday, April 01, 2006

Oh Jane, dear dear Jane...

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I'm in a state of grace right now (and I hope this expression means the same in English as it does in Portuguese). I have just seen the ...
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Thursday, March 30, 2006

Sixteen Years Ago Today

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It feels like even longer, but it's been "only" sixteen years... I was almost 19 then (my birthday is in July), I had just sta...
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Wednesday, March 29, 2006

They're Coming!

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My father- and mother-in-law had no trouble getting their work visa this morning in the American Consulate in Brazil. We haven't talked ...
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