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Math Geek Mom: Constrained Optimization at the Cafeteria Table
A friend from college is spending the year in Rome, on sabbatical with his family, writing two books. Despite the...
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Long Distance Mom: Frogs, Whales and Camping
Summer is when we expose our kids (particularly our city kids) to nature, gardening and camping gear. My teenagers already...
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Quick Update
Thanks to all who entered my big funky "Southern Illinois Rocks" raffle. Congratulations to winners Satch, Hoa, Stacey, Sue, Eva...
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Trading Spaces
With enrollment through the roof, any fallow space on campus is at a premium. Suddenly, spaces that have been kept...
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SCUP-44: Wrap-up ramblings
Based on the expertise inherent in my observation of Portland over a 3-day period (and most of that confined to...
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SCUP-44: Wednesday mid-day
OK, the main conference sessions are over, there are some local tours going on this afternoon. A few thoughts on...
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ABC's and PhD's: Let's keep up the chatter and navel-gazing
I found the recent Wall Street Journal article about family-work balance blogs surprising. After all, in my own family my...