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!

Friday, March 30, 2007

On Dissertation Work and... Driving

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Dissertatin' This week, for some reason, I've been a bit down, not very motivated to write on the blog. Part of it has to do with th...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Fun with Search Engine Results Leading Here

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I've wanted to write a post about this for the longest time, but I don't check my stats very often (sometimes they freak me out a bi...
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Sunday, March 25, 2007

Building a (Small) House in Brazil

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I found this other online tool called Slideroll which I thought was very good. Too bad one can only upload 100 photos and do 10 slide shows...
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What Kind of Flower I Am

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I saw this at sandy cove trail . I decided to post it mainly because I truly enjoyed taking the quiz. It was long (e.g. I hate those quizzes...
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Friday, March 23, 2007

Sunset at the Beach (again)

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Many of you have already seen these photos in a post I wrote last September, " The Boy, the Sea, and the Sunset ," but I wanted to...
Wednesday, March 21, 2007

Blogger Meet Up Squared

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Last Saturday night, I had the great pleasure of meeting Lauren , the sixth "Philly Mama" blogger from my blogroll that I've m...
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Monday, March 19, 2007

All Over the Place

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I generally prefer to have focused, "thematic" posts, but sometimes my mind is just all over the place and I can't do that if ...
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Friday, March 16, 2007

Glad We're Not Leaving

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One of the things that frustrated me greatly and that I didn't write about until now is that when the possibility of this job came up, I...
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Thursday, March 15, 2007

Guess What?

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So, since some of you have been asking, my husband's interview went well, but it was a type of "grilling" that he had never e...
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Wednesday, March 14, 2007

Long Day

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This is going to be a looong day. I can't stop thinking about how the interview is going. I'm not thinking, though, about what can...
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Party Pictures!

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For those who haven't seen them yet, I posted photos of previous birthday party decorations (including Kelvin's 4th birthday from la...
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Friday, March 09, 2007

Five Lists for my Favorite Five Year Old

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Kelvin has two "virtual friends," who just turned five on the same week he did. Ben, whose birthday was last Sunday, and Isabella,...
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Wednesday, March 07, 2007

Good Kids Bad Habits -- Blog Book Tour

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If you, like me, try to be a conscientious parent as far as health, nutrition, and safety are concerned and have been reading various books ...
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Tuesday, March 06, 2007

Suppressing High Hopes

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I'm feeling slightly better now, but a couple of hours ago I was feeling hopelessly depressed. It's hard to let go of hopes. I know ...
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Monday, March 05, 2007

A Bloddy Parenting Question

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OK, I know I promised a nice soothing photo post, but you get this instead. I'll include a cute photo of my boy to make up for the disag...
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Sunday, March 04, 2007

The End is Near

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From my "Dissertation Journal,"first entry in over seven months: The end is near. I hope. I pray. Not in sight yet, but fairly nea...
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Thursday, March 01, 2007

Musical Beds

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I had been planning to write this post for a while now, but since today the New York Times featured an article exactly about this issue, I h...
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Writing My Wrongs -- Part II

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As I continue the process of getting back into dissertation writing, I realize that I have more problems than those explained in my first po...
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Tuesday, February 27, 2007

New (Industrial) Developments!!

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(first, don't forget to check the previous post that I wrote this morning. I'd appreciate your feedback) No, there haven't been...
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First Step: Admitting My Problems

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So, here are some of the problems that plague me in my dissertation writing. I had originally written "guilt" in the title, but th...
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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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