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Math Geek Mom: Infinity

I met a fellow math professor at a conference several weeks ago who is teaching a class on the idea...

Motherhood After Tenure: on Dickens, labor unions, and the meaning of Christmas

Last night, after a long day at work, I collapsed on the couch with my husband and six-year old daughter...

ABC's and PhD's: Big Projects

For my husband and myself, our Thanksgiving weekend was pretty low-key. Turkey at our friends’ house (we only had to...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Colliding Calendars

This past Sunday was the first day of Advent, the beginning of a new liturgical year in the Christian calendar...

Debates Among Mothers

When a friend first alerted me to this article in the Wall Street Journal as possible material for this column...

Weather wimps

My part of the world, Vancouver, B.C., is full of weather wimps, and I count myself among them. We like...

Mothering at Mid-Career: Muffins

Sometimes teaching is a lot like baking. It helps to have a goal, and to have the basics down, but...

Thank you, Grandma and Grandpa O'Doherty

Earlier this week, a friend and I visited the Lower East Side Tenement Museum to take the “Moore Family Tour,”...