Don Quixote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
(1547 – 1616)

“I do not insist that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.”

“No insisto en que sea una aventura completa, sino es el comienzo de una, porque así es como comienzan las aventuras.”

Latest Publication by Janet Kurtz

"The Heart of My Soul"

The Heart of My Soul is a collection of family vignettes, snippets from cabin journals and guest books, individual reflections on changing times and aging, photo collages, published articles, short poems, and a Haiku covering outhouse etiquette! Each generation added wit, hard-work, and continues to carry on stewardship of “our little piece of heaven.” Each time the screen door screaks, a new adventure is about to begin or a memory has just been made.

Northern Shores Southern Borders

Available at:

BarnesandNoble.com

Also available in local bookstores:

CatTale’s, Brainerd
Central Lakes College, Brainerd
Mind Chimes Bookshop, Three Lakes
Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire
The Local Store, Eau Claire

Jan with her Mexican maid and amiga, Beda, Saltillo 1970
Author at her northwoods home

Author

Janet E. Kurtz

¡Hola! Me llamo Jan.

My parents named me Janet. I call myself Jan. My Spanish-speaking friends call me Juanita. These stories and photos represent my duo-life, a bilingual journey, a multi-dimensional world view.

Articles

Celebrations & Core Beliefs

In the north, meteorologists have added “wind chill” to their weather reports. They elongate their updates with “the temperature feels like” and “polar winds” coming ...
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Articles

Heart of My Soul

Illinois used to be a lot further away from northern Wisconsin than it is today. “Consider the roads,” Charles began. “Today’s expressways were once two-lane ...
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Articles

Of Owls and the Full Moon

Tick, tock. Tick, tock. The battery run wall clock faithfully pulses time through the cabin’s interior. At this moment, it is working its melodic tick, ...
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Monarch Butterflies

Monarchs. Those butterflies with royal orange and black patterned wings that flit into northern life every spring and hasten to return south before the freeze. Monarchs. A story of metamorphosis from egg to caterpillar to a being that takes flight – a metaphor of life, death and resurrection. Monarchs. Their rare migration requiring four generations to complete the life cycle that perpetuates their survival, unique among planetary creatures.