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, August 25, 2017

Many Firsts

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Some aren't especially significant -- my first day of teaching was two days ago on Wednesday, my husband's is coming up on Monday. O...
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Sunday, August 20, 2017

Path of Totality

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We are headed to TN in a few minutes to see the eclipse. We had plans to stay at a friend's house, but it turns out this friend moved to...
Monday, August 14, 2017

The best thing about the first day of Sophomore year...

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... is that we're all much less nervous about the whole thing. K has been at the school all year and has done wonderfully well. He gai...

This weekend

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I cannot say much about this weekend because of the semi-anonymous nature of this blog, which is already saying too much. All I will say i...
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Tuesday, August 08, 2017

5 Excellent Exercises to Prevent Back Pain -- "bookmark" :-)

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I'm embedding this video here as a bookmark because I want to be able to easily go back to these exercises! I should totally do this mor...
Sunday, August 06, 2017

Better

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I'm feeling way better , and I'm happy to report that I have 26 students now instead of only 18. I still have quite a way to go to r...
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Tuesday, August 01, 2017

Freaking out

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I was trying my best not to be negative, to be patient, and not to freak out, but now I'm in full blown freak out mode. :-( Sigh... ...
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Sunday, July 16, 2017

Week 8: Our very first week at a beach in the U.S. in 21 Years!

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In all these 21 years living here we had only been to the beach to spend a few hours or the day. Some of the beaches we'd gone to were: ...
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Busy Weeks 5-6 (Before & After Photos!)

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I've almost forgotten weeks 5-6 already, but I'd like to write about them before I write about weeks 8 & 9 and before grueling w...
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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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