“No insisto en que sea una aventura completa, sino es el comienzo de una, porque así es como comienzan las aventuras.”
“I do not insist that this is a full adventure, but it is the beginning of one, for this is the way adventures begin.”
Don Quixote de la Mancha
Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
(1547 – 1616)
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Author
Janet E. Kurtz
¡Hola! Me llamo Jan.
Hello! I call myself, Jan. My mother calls me, Janet. My Spanish-speaking friends call me, Juanita. These stories and photos represent my duo-life, a bilingual journey, a multi-dimensional world view.
Author
Janet E. Kurtz
¡Hola! Me llamo Jan.
Hello! I call myself, Jan. My mother calls me, Janet. My Spanish-speaking friends call me, Juanita. These stories and photos represent my duo-life, a bilingual journey, a multi-dimensional world view.
Articles
The Back-Story of “BIRTHING A BOOK”
“Writing a book is like being pregnant without a due date.” J.Kurtz (Quote from the upcoming May 2020 issue of my Her Voice article about writing a book.) Conception: The idea to write a book was conceived several decades ago. I began jotting notes and organizing my photos, journals, and musings. The Minnesota/Wisconsin cabin, flora,
Northern Shores-Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual Life has officially been “born!”
The most wonderful shipment arrived last week… …my new book Northern Shores – Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual Life has officially been “born!” Birth Announcement – A bouncing baby Memoir Name: Northern Shores – Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual Life Birth Date: April 9, 2020 Genre: Historical/Hysterical Memoir Height: 9” Weight” 1lb.
Day 24 away from home. . . or. . . Back home again
So, it has come to this. Fifty years after leaving this town for college, I am back, seated in my mother’s car, parked in front of the First Congregational Church where my father was once pastor and my brother and I used to shimmy around the ledge of the 100-some-year-old structure to see if
Articles
The Back-Story of “BIRTHING A BOOK”
“Writing a book is like being pregnant without a due date.” J.Kurtz (Quote from the upcoming May 2020 issue of my Her Voice article about writing a book.) Conception: The idea to write a book was conceived several decades ago. I began jotting notes and organizing my photos, journals, and musings. The Minnesota/Wisconsin cabin, flora,
Northern Shores-Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual Life has officially been “born!”
The most wonderful shipment arrived last week… …my new book Northern Shores – Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual Life has officially been “born!” Birth Announcement – A bouncing baby Memoir Name: Northern Shores – Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual Life Birth Date: April 9, 2020 Genre: Historical/Hysterical Memoir Height: 9” Weight” 1lb.
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.
