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!

Tuesday, November 28, 2017

When you think you wrote something...

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... and then can't find it. I thought I'd blogged it, so I looked in my archives this year (easy peasy because, hello! only 62 pos...
Tuesday, November 21, 2017

Headed to the Big Apple!

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We're headed to NYC later today. It's going to be the second time we stay in Manhattan. The first time was only for ONE NIGHT and ...
Thursday, November 16, 2017

Highly Curated Content versus Relatively Raw & Unflitered...

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... or the Instagram/Pinterest versus the Blogger/WordPress generations. Nothing like a scattered and hastily written blog post to dispel...
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Wednesday, November 15, 2017

Gotta Write Something! (And a Xmas Card brought to you by... Lowered Expectations!)

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OK, I have FIVE posts sitting in the draft folder right now, all my latest posts, and about 5 more in draft since June. I'm tired of t...
Tuesday, November 07, 2017

Back "Home"

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Today was one of those days of literal "in-betweeness" in which I have to re-enter the country and face all the angst of my choice...
Thursday, November 02, 2017

Oh, Boy, it's November! But I'm in the Southernmost City in the World!

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I could have possibly blogged last night, but I was EXHAUSTED! First night sleeping in a bed in three days! First longish night of sleep in ...
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Monday, October 30, 2017

Airport Blogging, Part 8

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I don’t know how many “airport posts” I’ve written in the blog— no time to check now, but I’m guessing 7. ;-) Travel is EVERYTHING. I’ve s...

The Year of the Unfortunately Thwarted Travels - Part II

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Today I leave for another trip, but this trip has also been altered by events outside of our control. I hope it will have a true "happy...
Sunday, October 29, 2017

The Year of the Unfortunately Thwarted Travels - Part I

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If you're a longtime reader you know our family travels a lot! It used to be mostly within the U.S., to Canada, and to & from Brazil...
Thursday, October 26, 2017

66 or 23 more posts to go

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Once more, I want to pursue the "silly" goal of 117 posts in 2017. If I find it too hard to write 66 posts, which would be PRECI...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

I really don't know...

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... why I'm not blogging more or, I mean, much, or at all. There's no good reason, perhaps the main one is that I have the (probab...
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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Exhilarating Day in Parenting and Teaching

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Wow... what a long day it has been! The first day your child drives you somewhere, not just through a small town, but, after successfully...
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Wednesday, September 06, 2017

Alive, busy, happy

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I'm alive, very busy (not excessively so, thankfully! Leisure time guaranteed), and happy. I was angsty before the semester started, f...
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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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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