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, May 12, 2023

"This world was never meant for one As beautiful as you" - For Heather (and Vincent)

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The news of Heather's suicide reached the internet on Tuesday morning, and I've been thinking not stop about it since then, and tryi...
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Saturday, March 11, 2023

2022 was AMAZING and also SO HARD, 2023 is great so far

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I really wanted to write about 2022. And if I don't write here, where else? I don't have the patience for journaling anymore, it...
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The Usefulness of Having Blogged Consistently for 13+ years...

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 Sigh... I haven't blogged in ages. The smart phone has destroyed our lives and will be the death of humanity. hahaha NOT funny, actuall...
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Thursday, September 15, 2022

18th Blogging Anniversary, Empty-Nesting, Deaths, and Being American during a Global Pandemic

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18 years ago in a month minus one day... I posted a photo of my baby and I .  This baby is gone off to college now, we're officially emp...
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Sunday, September 11, 2022

The 9/11 Babies Were the Class of 2020 - 9/11 21 years later and the pandemic

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It took me 20 years to finally watch the Naudet brothers' 9/11 documentary. I saw it on YouTube .   No wonder I didn't really know ...
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Wednesday, March 02, 2022

2021

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 OK, so I didn't blog at all in 2021... so it's like the year didn't exist, right? [facepalm] BTW, I have 3 students writing an ...
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Monday, February 28, 2022

It's been so long...

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     ETA: I did not blog once, not even ONCE in 2021! That is so so sad.  ... I don't even know how to write a blog post anymore.  The c...
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Saturday, October 31, 2020

From Brasil! X Freaking out about the election

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 This is a most useless blog. All the people who used to read me here are my friends on FB and IG. I still miss their blogs and their words,...
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Sunday, September 20, 2020

The First Case

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 Well, well... Today I got an email from a health department case investigator saying that one of my students who had attended class in pers...
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Wednesday, September 09, 2020

My husband is coming back from Brasil!!

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This pandemic has been hard.  I wish I had been blogging. I wish I could be journaling the way I did pretty intensively from February and Ma...
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Monday, March 16, 2020

A Corona Virus Social Distancing Social Media Pet Peeve: The Smugness

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OK, I don't have the courage to write this on Facebook, so I'm taking refuge in my blog! I've been writing updates there regular...
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Thursday, February 20, 2020

An Emma Overdose

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Similarly to February 2011 and 2016 , I was craving some Jane Austen this month, but it looks like I went completely overboard this year! ;...
Tuesday, February 11, 2020

11 years ago TODAY, I posted a Lyle Mays song; Today, he died!

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OK, this is a little bit too much of a crazy coincidence, but it's true! In fact, he died yesterday (2/10), but the news reached everyon...
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Tuesday, January 21, 2020

In 2019...

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(I need to do this, I've done it nearly every year! At least starting in 2010, I think) Here's the 2019 preview post . So, in 20...
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New Year, (Temporarily) Divided Family

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So much to catch up on, so little motivation to blog. Anyone still out there? (apart from Jenny in New England, hi Jenny!) This will be a ...
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Sunday, November 24, 2019

Better, Much Better

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Given the title and topic of the previous post , this is the only title I can think of as fitting for this post. Sigh... I miss blogging. ...
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Sunday, October 27, 2019

The Year of Losing, Forgetting, and Breaking Things

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Sigh... All I do is sigh... it must be aggravating to people around me. Good thing I haven't been blogging then, maybe. About that, I ...
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Monday, October 21, 2019

Test

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From my old iPhone 5! It worked! Wow!
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Thursday, May 09, 2019

Things I Did NOT Do This Semester

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I've been writing this post in my head for weeks now. I already wrote that this semester was hard , but now I'd just like to registe...
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Wednesday, May 08, 2019

Back in the Home Renovation Bandwagon

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WOW, I'm writing a new post only a day later! ;-) This feels so 2006 or 07 or 08!  ;-D I think it's a healthy habit and now that I...
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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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