Friday, September 30, 2011

Useful Exercise (or why I'm not really sedentary)

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I'm pretty lazy, I must admit... and pretty sedentary... and not sporty at all... And I'm obviously always quite out-of-shape. Lucki...
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I'm getting old, really, really old! :)

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I just found out (thanks to facebook) that one of the flower girls in my wedding* had a baby yesterday. She was seven and was my second grad...

Sky-High International Airfares = Sheer Torture for Expatriate Families

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I'm pretty depressed right now... In fact, this issue has upset me for a while.* Once upon a time, it was possible to find round-trip ...
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Thursday, September 29, 2011

Eccentricity!?!

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"Am I eccentric?" asked my 9.5 year old yesterday afternoon as we were walking together. His question gave me pause. Thoughts we...
Wednesday, September 28, 2011

Too tired to blog...

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Afterword: well, after I wrote this long and boring (how-busy-I've-been) post, I guess the title isn't really true, but I'll ke...
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Saturday, September 24, 2011

Zizi Possi - Sentimental (from Ópera do Malandro)

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Tonight, looking at my sister-in-law 's blogroll I found this blog by one of my husband's second cousins* and while reading the who...
Friday, September 23, 2011

Lepton & Quark - August Pictures!

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It's been a very rocky first month and a half of having my new "babies," but I hope that they will be part of our family for m...
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Sunday, September 18, 2011

Nickeled & Dimed - 10 years later/ Panic!!

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Over a month ago I read the article " Barbara Ehrenreich, On Americans (Not) Getting By (Again) " thanks to a referral by  Dawn Fr...
Thursday, September 15, 2011

Soccer Mom Squared

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 Exhibit I:  Exhibit II:   And the best thing about Exhibit I is that my oldest didn't even like to run, but apparently running while p...

"And the seasons, they go round and round..."

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Note: I use the same welcome door sign for Spring & Summer. Brought to you by Joni Mitchell's song "Circle Game:" P.S. ...
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011

A Few Thoughts About Adoption

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First things first: to say that adoption is an incredibly sensitive topic is a huge understatement... People have strong opinions about it, ...
Sunday, September 11, 2011

When the buildings I loved collapsed...

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I thought K was joking when he emailed me that I had to turn on the TV because airplanes had hit the WTC and the twin towers had collapsed. ...
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Wednesday, September 07, 2011

Ten Years Ago TODAY!!!

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I peed on a stick... ... and the rest is history, as they say. Nothing can quite compare to the feeling of seeing those two pink lines o...
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Lepton & Quark (thanks to Oxford University for the "sign"! ;)

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Note: I wrote this whole thing on 8/11, nearly a month ago. Why didn't I post it then? Because I wanted... "needed" to include...
Tuesday, September 06, 2011

Car Troubles (Bureaucratic)

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I may be late for work today because of car troubles. Just yesterday morning, as we were getting ready to leave (we had to teach on Labor ...
Friday, September 02, 2011

A Day in the Life of an ADHD Housewife

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So many things to do... today I'm unable to sleep in after alarm goes off for hubby, before 7 am... I'm not teaching today and that...
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Tuesday, August 30, 2011

Adoption, Birth Parents & Steve Jobs

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I've said it before, but I'll say it again... adoption is the issue I most learned about -- particularly from the birth-parent's...
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Monday, August 29, 2011

General Education Students

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I think one of the big "culture shocks" for me as an expatriate wasn't selling all my furniture, packing all my clothes, photo...
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First Day (and hope for the other class)

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Today I begin teaching again, one more year of "working in the margins" for me. Last Friday was a bad day... I was depressed and a...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

What about working without being paid?

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Sigh. I'm just so stressed out right now! Just what I needed when I need all the energy I can muster to put the finishing touches in m...
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