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The Sit List: Virtual Vacays, Aquarium Live Streams, and Puppies
Check out this week's Sit List from Berkeleyside, which features digital tours of National Parks around the country, live streams of...
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Mom, PhD
- Apr 14, 2020
- 1 min
Berkeleyside: Todd Parr Offers Storytime Tips
It's really challenging to keep your kids entertained while sheltering-in-place, but reading has been one of our most engaging...
Mom, PhD
- Apr 3, 2020
- 1 min
The Sit List: Bird Detective, Jazz Class, and Theater at Home
Check out this week's Sit List on Berkeleyside, which includes activities you can do from home like birdwatching with the family,...
Mom, PhD
- Apr 2, 2020
- 1 min
NOSH: David Lebovitz's Drinking French Cookbook
With the stress of cloistering, I bet a lot of you could use a drink right now. For Berkeleyside's food blog NOSH, I profiled David...
Mom, PhD
- Apr 1, 2020
- 1 min
Glamour: "Giving Birth During Coronavirus"
I remember going into labor in the hot Miami summer two years ago and feeling nervous and excited and scared all at the same time. And...
Mom, PhD
- Mar 31, 2020
- 1 min
Berkeleyside: Berkeley Artist's Instagram Sketching Series
I wrote this profile of Berkeley artist Rigel Stuhmiller for Berkeleyside. Rigel is hosting a nature sketching series on her Instagram...
Mom, PhD
- Mar 27, 2020
- 1 min
Berkeleyside's Weekly "Sit List"
I'll be writing a weekly roundup of events (called "The Sit List") that you can do while sheltering-in-place for Berkeleyside, a local...
Mom, PhD
- Mar 25, 2020
- 1 min
Shelter-in-Place Spring Break
Welcome to my first and hopefully only shelter-in-place Spring Break! How has your week been going? I've been writing, cooking, and...
Mom, PhD
- Mar 14, 2020
- 1 min
Coronavirus x COLA Strikes at UC Berkeley
The coronavirus panic has infiltrated the Bay Area. UC Berkeley will be conducting all classes virtually until the end of the semester,...
Mom, PhD
- Mar 9, 2020
- 1 min
Glamour: "They Planned Their Dream Wedding. Then Coronavirus Happened"
Four years ago, my now-husband and I flew to Maui, Hawaii to get married on the beach and then traveled to Japan, Korea, and China for...
Mom, PhD
- Feb 28, 2020
- 1 min
Shondaland: "Celebrating Your Natural Skin Tone"
“People often describe me as someone who looks like she just came back from a vacation at the beach, which is unusual for someone of...
Mom, PhD
- Feb 24, 2020
- 1 min
Berkeleyside: "'Moorish-Tudor' Fever Dream"
There's a unique building on Telegraph/Haste in downtown Berkeley that was unveiled this week. The building, named Enclave Dormitories,...
Mom, PhD
- Feb 14, 2020
- 2 min
Valentine's Day at IKEA
We prepared ourselves for the exhausting vacuum of IKEA with a one-year-old. Even though we were just looking for a simple high chair—our...
Mom, PhD
- Jan 27, 2020
- 2 min
Week 1, Spring: A Gift for Yourself
It’s been a stressful first week of the spring semester for us at Mom, PhD. We’ve had a baby with a cold, residual fatigue from a busy...
Mom, PhD
- Jan 21, 2020
- 1 min
Hey, Spring Semester!
Can you believe it’s the start of the spring semester at Berkeley? The break went by like lightning! My son's school went on break after...
Mom, PhD
- Jan 7, 2020
- 1 min
Hold on Tight, Baby Boy
The start of a new year is always a sentimental time for me. I've been in a reflective mood, undistracted by the work demands of school....
Mom, PhD
- Jan 1, 2020
- 3 min
Mom, PhD's Top 5 New Year's Resolutions
Welcome to 2020! We’re having a great first day of the new decade and we hope you are too. We engage in a lot of rituals to welcome the...
Mom, PhD
- Dec 27, 2019
- 1 min
Happy Holidays from Mom, PhD
Happy Hanukkah and Merry Christmas from us at Mom, PhD! We've been in full family mode, hanging out at our house and neighborhood and...
Mom, PhD
- Dec 21, 2019
- 3 min
What I Learned in My First Semester as Mom, PhD
On Wednesday at 2 pm, I pushed send on my final paper of the semester. It was the first semester of my first year of my PhD at UC...
Mom, PhD
- Dec 20, 2019
- 2 min
Chewy: Athena the Cat
I had the pleasure of working with animal rescuer Rachel Roszkowski for this article for Chewy's blog, Pet Central. Thanks for sharing...
Mom, PhD
- Nov 29, 2019
- 2 min
Thanksgiving: Family & Fanon
Happy Thanksgiving! We had an intimate family holiday this year because we're new to the area and we're establishing some traditions in...
Mom, PhD
- Nov 22, 2019
- 3 min
Spa Day in San Francisco
Recently, I went to a Korean spa on Geary Avenue in San Francisco to relax from an increasingly frenetic semester. While I’ve been to...
Mom, PhD
- Nov 7, 2019
- 2 min
Mid-Semester Crisis
I am tired. It's been weeks of reading books, writing articles, taking care of the baby, and cooking dinner for the family and I am...
Mom, PhD
- Nov 2, 2019
- 1 min
A First for Everything, Even Hair
Starting a PhD means there have been a lot of firsts for this mom, but my son has had a lot of firsts too: his first day of school, his...
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