Articles written by Janet Kurtz
Northern Shores-Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual Life has officially been “born!”
April 24, 2020
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The most wonderful shipment arrived last week… …my new book Northern Shores – Southern Borders: Revelations of a Bilingual Life has officially been “born!” ...
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Day 24 away from home. . . or. . . Back home again
April 6, 2020
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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 ...
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Isabel Allende Writes
March 6, 2020
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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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The Year: 2020
February 27, 2020
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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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Día de Muertos – Remembering
November 5, 2019
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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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Celebrating Hispanic Month
October 11, 2019
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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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Sugar Skull Weather
October 9, 2019
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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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Monarchs in Mexico
October 3, 2019
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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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The Sauerkraut and Salsa Life (Northern Shores; Southern Borders)
September 25, 2019
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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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