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!

Sunday, April 30, 2017

One more Unsyncronized Travel detail

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An addendum to the last post !   It turns out that when my son returns from Costa Rica tomorrow night, our group will already be close to...
Sunday, April 23, 2017

The Month of Disconnected Travels

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Today my youngest son arrives from his six day trip with the bell choir. Tomorrow night (more like Tuesday early morning), our oldest leav...
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Tuesday, April 18, 2017

My Youngest Son's First Trip Solo

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This morning I sent off my youngest son in his first bell-choir trip. Three years ago I blogged about the first of such trips for our famil...
Tuesday, April 11, 2017

Excuses, Excuses, Excuses!

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I should be working on my garden, right now, and getting some sun on my shoulders to get lots of vitamin D... and I will, in a few minutes. ...
Monday, April 10, 2017

Crazy week of little sleep

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Quick update because I need to go to bed. Last week was pretty crazy! It started with a super intensely packed & exhausting weekend be...
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Tuesday, April 04, 2017

You'll never guess...

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... how I spent this day, the " happiest Tuesday of the year " ;-)  It's easy to guess that I did NOT, in fact go to the Farme...

To Walk Invisible

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This was beautiful! I'm buying the blu-ray. You can see it for free for five more days in the PBS Masterpiece website . So sad as well...
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The Absolutely Happiest Tuesday of the Year!!!!

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Today is one of my favorite days of the year because the Tuesday Farmer's Market it back!! Our local market is open year-round on Satu...
Monday, March 27, 2017

Blame it all (blog hiatus mostly) ;-P on the birthday boy

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My son turned 15 two and a half weeks ago and I didn't even blog about it! Or about anything else, for that matter. The main reason is...
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Wednesday, March 01, 2017

A rare day

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Edited on 4/4/17 3:17 am   Today is a rare day, [because] I get to teach about my dissertation subject. One of the three authors [I wrot...
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Tuesday, February 28, 2017

Ethnic Cleansing, or "Make America *White* Again"

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The days following the election, I was extremely upset and spent every waking minute interacting with equally stressed out friends on socia...
Tuesday, February 21, 2017

The (Relative) Calm Before the Storm is Practically Over/ people like us

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I'm bracing myself, I really am. Just waiting for the next horror to unfold and make me anxious and upset. I meant to post this yester...
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Sunday, February 12, 2017

Thanks to my kid I know more Grammy music!

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Of course I like Adele or Beyonce on my own, but thanks to him I also know and have listened to music from Lukas Graham, John Legend, and ...
Thursday, February 09, 2017

Blogging in 2017...

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... is lonely and discouraging. But blogging is one of "my favorite things!!!" :-( BTW the label/song-nod, is wrong because I ...
Sunday, February 05, 2017

The Journey - Full Lumber 84 Super Bowl Ad (deemed too controversial to air)

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Tuesday, January 31, 2017

The Best Class Ever or...

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... sheer torture? Because it could be "the last" for a long, long while... who knows how long. :-( I'm teaching a lit class...
Thursday, January 26, 2017

Doing a small thing/ Despair/ What can we do?

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this promises to be long, and rambling, and... but... I have to write tonight, I just do, so please bear with me if you're so inclined. ...
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Friday, January 20, 2017

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I don't know how to title this. i don't feel like capitalizing anything... as if small letters could convey better how scared and ...
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Wednesday, January 18, 2017

First Meal of the Day:

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5 pm. :-( It was a wonderful day of teaching! P.S. Blogging on my phone again. [Trying to!] One. Word. At. A. Time. Literatlly (E...

First day and...

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... of course I forgot to take my medication! I guess I'll have some coffee instead!
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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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