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Mothering at Mid-Career: Changes
Like Susan, I’m thinking about birthdays today. I am writing this on my son’s fourteenth birthday. Fourteen years ago I...
Birthday Ruminations
Last week, we celebrated both Ben's seventeenth birthday and that of our cat, Molly. (Molly was a rescue cat who...
Math Geek Mom: (Probably Unintended) Gifts from the Jesuits
It is suspected that the 360 degrees in a circle may have originated from the 365 days in a year...
The Joys of Administration
This week I started my new position as Director of my university’s teaching center. This is my dream job: I...
ABC's and PhD's: Nerdy fun
A couple weeks ago our family got gussied up to go to an evening ball – an annual summer extravaganza...
Mothering at Mid-Career: When the News is Too Much
This weekend, my Facebook feed was full of news. And it was four stories, in particular, that cropped up again...
Dining Out
Reading both Rosemarie’s and Libby’s columns last week made me think about dining experiences of Ben’s childhood, especially the absolute...
Math Geek Mom: The Choices We Make
A town not far from where I work defines itself as “The City of Choice”, and I used to laugh...