Thursday, June 30, 2016

Leaving for Brazil

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Everything went pretty smoothly & the only thing I didn't do was to plant these perennial plants I'd bought one or two months ag...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2016

20 Years Ago

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20 years ago last Monday (June 20th) K & I arrived in the U.S. with 7 pieces of luggage. 1996! it feels like a lifetime ago, and I guess...
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List of Updates

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- We drove my parents to the JFK airport in New York on Monday. LOOOONG day driving for over 12 hours. Sigh... They arrived safely in Brazil...
Monday, June 20, 2016

On (Almost) Being Ripped Off & Resolution In Sight!

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Well, I don't have a lot of time because our friends (who had ADORABLE twins 10 months ago) came up for the wedding (I PROMISE more on t...
Saturday, June 18, 2016

A Sad Post with an Undecided Ending -- What would YOU do?

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I need to write his as a sad "coda" to today's earlier update post . Something very unfortunate happened on Thursday. Our ca...
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I'm Officially Old! 8-(

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I need reading glasses!  :-( /       / O - O (I made that up, couldn't find instructions online, though I'm sure they exist!) ...

Crazy Changing (& Traveling & Hosting) Times (and I hate Facebook)

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Sigh... Sorry, but I have to begin with a sigh. Can't believe it's been 20 days since I last blogged. Unbelievable. Such few p...
Sunday, May 29, 2016

Manhattan, I've missed you!

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Photo taken from the George Washington Bridge I used to come visit nearly every year during our 8 years in MA. And for the six years...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Quick update of my "indiscriminate and reckless" helping ;-)

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I began to write this last night, but then felt bad that my husband was driving and I wasn't talking to him, so I stopped. And then thi...
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Friday, May 13, 2016

Almost over... and, Broken (by the grading)

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This year the grading broke me. I mean, it wasn't the grading, it was the online homework that many students didn't complete that ...
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Thursday, May 05, 2016

My parents are here! After 5 years not visiting.

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In the meantime, we visited Brazil twice and met them in other parts of the world (South Africa into 2012 and  in the Middle east and Europe...
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Wednesday, May 04, 2016

Should we be freaking out?? :-(

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Independents WON'T vote for Hillary, is it possible that a crazed outspoken, racist, bigot, anti-women, billionaire celebrity with no su...
Tuesday, May 03, 2016

Late!

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I can't believe I'm late for my first final exam. :-(  Class is at 2, exam was at 1 and I was on "automatic pilot" and for...

The Third "Last Day"

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This semester I have five "last days" -- last Thursday was the first, the last day of classes at U#1. Yesterday, was the second on...
Friday, April 29, 2016

Pop!

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"These are great pants! I love them!" Said the lady crossing paths with me at the university and smiling.  "Thanks!" I r...
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Tuesday, April 26, 2016

My "Baby" is Back Home & My Parents Arrived Safely in the U.S.

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On Sunday night, my 14 year-old son returned from a six-day trip to Florida with his school's bell choir. We all missed him so much! (es...
Friday, April 22, 2016

I forgot to blog about Brasil...

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Last Sunday, after a weekend of upheaval in the Brazilian Congress -- speeches ALL NIGHT from Friday to Saturday and all day Saturday, argui...
Thursday, April 21, 2016

Your own kind of beautiful

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I couldn't resist and bought this for me a couple of months ago. It hangs right next to my closet! Oh, and somedays, one's hair is j...
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Wednesday, April 20, 2016

On being "cute"

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I don't know what got into me, but I felt like writing this post.   I am kind of cute. You can tell me that I'm "beautiful...
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Thursday, April 14, 2016

He skipped two whole sizes! ;-)

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Two years ago, when my eldest son had turned 12, the pediatrician warned me: "Buy him only one pair of pants and one pair of shoes beca...