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!

Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Verdict

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So, now with the 1000th post out of the way, we can continue on to our regularly scheduled programming. ;-) This is one of the things I for...
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Tuesday, March 30, 2010

The Thousandth Post!!!! 20 Years Ago and a Mish Mash of Stuff

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Over 5 years of blogging. Exactly 1000 posts today. I wanted to go all celebratory, post some beautiful pictures, yada yada yada... Instead...
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Friday, March 26, 2010

Here We Go Again! or Up for Grabs!

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The house is officially up for sale today (yeah, and I write at midnight, so the day just officially started). I'm so happy about that! ...
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Saturday, March 20, 2010

Back in a Few Hours

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I'm still up because I was talking to our houseguest , a friend from Brazil who arrived from NYC after midnight. (It was a "blogg...
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Wednesday, March 17, 2010

The Moment of Truth, Census 2010, Hispanic or Non-Hispanic?

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I've been dreading this moment for a while now and I cringe every time I fill job application forms, sometimes filling in "Hispanic...
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Monday, March 15, 2010

That Empty Feeling

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This post is totally related to that one . So this evening, after we came back home from a boys' scout style meeting in church after whi...
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Cake Baking, Basement Flooding, Boys' Sleepover...

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This was a busy and yet strangely relaxing weekend. As those who are facebook & twitter friends with me already know, on Friday night I ...

Lone(ly) Parent

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One more week of lone parenting for me... K is off to a conference in Portland, OR and will be back on Saturday morning. The only problem --...
Saturday, March 13, 2010

Seeing with Mine Own Eyes

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I just thought I'd say, before way too much time has passed, that this past Monday we visited the possible place where we may be moving ...
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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Nothing Short of Amazing (link post)

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Lest you should think the title refers to us, I decided to include that parenthetical remark there. Things are moving along here (while stil...
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Tuesday, March 09, 2010

A Letter for my "Favoritest" Eight-year-old

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Kelvin, my love, You already know so much of what I'm going to write here because I tell you some of these things each and every day, bu...
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When you don't have anything good to say...

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... just don't say anything at all, right? So, that was the case with me last week. I was a bit "bluesy" and sad for no good r...
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Wednesday, March 03, 2010

Freelancing, a BIG FIRST!

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I can hardly believe it, but I just finished a translation job (two letters for a law firm) and sent them an invoice!! An invoice!! Me!! Wow...
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Looking Forward: Grocery Shopping and School Clothes

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I finally began to look at stores, the boys' school (they're going to a specific private school, one of the reasons we wanted to mov...
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Some Jumbled Thoughts on "All This"

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You know... I think that to begin with, the reality of "all this" (K basically having a job now and all) hasn't yet sunk in fo...
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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

It is Written (in a Frightful Hurry)

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So, you remember the verbal offer , right? After some delay on K's part (he was interviewing all of lat week after all), he sent his bud...
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Friday, February 26, 2010

Looking Back and Trying to Look Forward

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We've waited for so long for this moment, the moment in which we'd have a more concrete idea of where we were going to end up and pe...
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Thursday, February 25, 2010

Driving in Bad Weather

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K is still driving back home from his interview and it's taking him longer again, because of the weather. It's not as bad as the for...
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Goldilocks and the Job Search

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If the previous comparison was serious, this one may be a bit silly, but I still think it works! :-) First, if you're not familiar with...
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Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Making to the "Olympics"

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This is the first of at least two "metaphors" for K's job search that I'll post here. They may be clichéd and/or ineffecti...
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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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