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, October 28, 2018

Sad for Brasil :-(

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Brazil elected a new president today and it was a really difficult choice, people were between "a rock and a hard place" with the ...
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Sunday, October 07, 2018

It's not funny anymore! :-(

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Over ten years ago I wrote a post about a parody of the classic children's book Goodnight Moon (Margaret Wise Brown) that made fun of ...
Sunday, September 23, 2018

"Wasted" Seeds?

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OK, since I broke the "blogger's block," and wrote about " sowing seeds " let me write some more on a related topic....
Thursday, September 20, 2018

Sowing Some Seeds...

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... I cannot write that without thinking of the song "A Bit of Earth" from the Broadway musical version of one of my favorite book...
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Friday, August 24, 2018

Summer Road Trip of a Lifetime (and maybe... How Social Media is Ruining my Life and... the World? ;-)

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I suspect that my smart phone (I was a late adopter and only got a smart phone in 2012, 6 years ago) and social media (Facebook and now Inst...
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Tuesday, July 17, 2018

Hi

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When I have gone this long without posting, for some reason I cannot write a descriptive title. Sigh... Like... "To the beach in Fl...
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Wednesday, June 13, 2018

Employed until 2022 & I VOTED!!!!!

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I signed my new contract this weekend. With the new 3 year contract we are reviewed half-way through (in the beginning of this semester) a...
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Monday, May 14, 2018

My CRAZY Life

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Things have calmed down somewhat, but there is still plenty of CRAZY to come!! If you're wondering about my brother-in-law , he had a ...
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Friday, April 27, 2018

Bad News (extended family)

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I need to sleep, but I also needed to share this before the event. I haven't blogged much about this over the years, especially becaus...
Monday, April 16, 2018

The TEN YEAR Anniversary of my PhD Dissertation Defense!!!

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Ten years ago today I defended my dissertation. It was Wonderful! ;-) Later, in the following weeks, it would get quite stressful, but th...
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Friday, March 30, 2018

Did she finally come around?

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Last week my mom surprised me. When I left Brazil 22 years ago next June, my mom desperately sobbed and cried at the airport. Over the yea...
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Tuesday, March 27, 2018

Safely Back!

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Both of my "babies" made it back safely! My washer and drier were very full last night, but my heart was fuller! ;-) P.S. the ...
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Sunday, March 25, 2018

Childless for Four Days...

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... after having an only son for a week. In about 18 hours I won't be childless anymore and in about 20-21 hours our family will be co...
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Sunday, March 11, 2018

16 Years a Mother/ Trip Update

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On Friday my oldest turned 16 and I enjoyed spending about half an hour with him right next to me in our bed (with my husband putting away h...
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Friday, February 09, 2018

Glimpse of my Food Vocab Presentation

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Edited to add another image that I hope will work. This is the first page of the presentation that pulled an all nighter to prepare. It...
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Thursday, February 08, 2018

Yoga!!!

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Finally, after nearly two months, I made it to yoga this morning!! I was really sad that it didn't work out for me to go during the whol...
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Wednesday, February 07, 2018

An All Nighter

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I pulled an all nighter. And all I got to show for it was a few NI ("needs improvement") categories in my class observation eval...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2018

(Long Overdue) Update

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I'm sure I have one or more posts with this exact same* title, but I don't mind.    *this is possibly one of those "wrong,...
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Monday, February 05, 2018

Blogging and Motherhood - or When Heather Armstrong Made Me Cry (back in 2008)

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WOW... This post took nearly TEN YEARS to see the light of day, how crazy is that?!? I thought of it in May of 2008, began to write it in Fe...
Tuesday, January 23, 2018

The worst or the best moment to become a citizen?

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So, yeah... Our citizenship interview is scheduled for Thursday. I didn't really blog about this, I only mentioned it in passing in on...
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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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