Sunday, November 25, 2018

November is almost over and I didn't blog once (till now)! :-(

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I blame it all on being forced to use a laptop, something that I don't like much at all, since my oldest takes over the desktop computer...
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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...