Maria Gallardo-Williams
@teachforaliving
Chemist - Baker - Mom Director of Faculty Development NC State
Let me tell you something about me: if I get even three drops of rain on me, my hair reverts to the Galician hair of all my ancestors. Red, random curls, and completely unmanageable.
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A very happy birthday to my husband! Made him a hummingbird cake, had a fight with a Bundt pan, but yet I persevered!
We made gnocchi and tomato sauce from scratch with our garden tomatoes and herbs. It was heavenly!
Fig dip served over whipped ricotta. Fresh fig season is my most favorite time in the garden!
A very soothing jellyfish and a colorful seahorse that I met last Sunday at the NC Aquarium in Pine Knoll Shores!
I see your Camp Seagull and raise you a Camp Don Lee!
Sunflowers and a view of the Neuse River from this weekend in Oriental, NC
Apparently this is my “in love” face? I thought it would be more serious?
Lady is so sad about Norway’s departure from the World Cup that she has taken to her bed!
Notre Dame is truly a beautiful university, full of lovely and thoughtful people. I’m so glad that I got to visit it with the ACC Academic Leaders Network and my NC State cohort!
This Ecuadorian toad would disagree (not my picture)!
Coming to you from the most beautiful classroom at NC State, the Brooks Hall rotunda.
My son is turning 25 and has requested a lemon blueberry cake. I hope he likes it!
Any birders out there can tell me what kind of feathers are these? I found them in two different parts of my backyard in NC, if that helps.
Some of you might remember Sake. He went over the rainbow bridge today, and my heart is so sad without him. He was simply the bestest boy.
We had cake to celebrate the culmination of our book club! Really enjoyed using @perusall.com as our platform, thanks for sponsoring! The book was The Opposite of Cheating: Teaching for Integrity in the Age of AI by Dr. Tricia Bertram Gallant and David Rettinger.
Things that make me happy; seashells. I don’t like going to the beach, but I love finding seashells at thrift stores. I know that’s weird, but it makes me happy.