Articles written by Janet Kurtz

Isabel Allende
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Isabel Allende Writes

Every January 8th Isabel Allende, the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author, steps into her “writing” shed to begin her next book. It became her ...
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Don Miguel Ruiz
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The Year: 2020

Seems such an amazing date. Every January is a new beginning, but in 2020? This must be very resilient in the numerology game. Strong. Defiant. ...
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Father Donald, age 2
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Día de Muertos – Remembering

Donald was born thirteen years after his brother, Woodrow, and sister, Wilma, putting him into his own separate family generation. Wilma embraced him as her ...
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Conga Line
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Celebrating Hispanic Month

It is noon, 12:00 p.m. almost sharp, on the first Thursday of the month, Cultural Thursday time at Central Lakes College, Brainerd, Minnesota. Today, the ...
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Set up and decorating
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Sugar Skull Weather

A chilly breeze rattles the yellowing maple leaves. The sumac turns blaze red, outlining the browning cornstalks drying in the fields. Orange pumpkins polka dot ...
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Maru, leader of the Spanish Language Institute of Cuernavaca, poses with a tour/student, Barbara, from Minnesota at the Rosario Monarch Butterfly Sanctuary
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Monarchs in Mexico

Last fall, an email arrived from SLI, Spanish Language Institute in Cuernavaca, announcing its annual trip to Morelia, Michoacán to visit the Rosario Monarch Sanctuary. ...
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Alberto and Robert on the boardwalk along the Mississippi River at the Crow Wing Park Town Site, 2019
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The Sauerkraut and Salsa Life (Northern Shores; Southern Borders)

It is 7:00 a.m. The August sun is already rising later than it did in July. The overnight temperature slipped to 52º sending a cool ...
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