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Estoy Aquí

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Jan 27, 2026

The Virgen de Guadalupe, patron saint of the Americas, appeared to Juan Diego in 1531 on a hill outside of present-day Mexico City. She manifest as a “brown woman” for the “New World” brown people. Her

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Unprecedented

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Jan 04, 2026

Orientation included a walk from the outside world into a small entry room with 6” x 6” lock boxes for our telephones and car keys. A uniformed official passed the metal detector wand up one

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Answering the Call

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Dec 16, 2025

The phone rang.  I had been waiting. Last night, I got word that I.C.E. was rounding up their quotas and sending them to a few counties that had agreements.  Agreements to take in detainees. Detainees

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Oh, the Things I Have Learned!

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Nov 16, 2025

“Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas I held October 2025 open to traipse through points in Spain and Portugal with two long-time friends. The months saw plans morph from reuniting with Maribel’s sisters

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Intergenerational Wisdom

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Oct 16, 2025

Four extra people visiting added to the total of swimsuits and beach towels that would need room to dry on the short clothesline strung between my metal carport poles. Maybe Grandpa Robert could reinforce the

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Fairy Webs and Deadheads

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Sep 15, 2025

A teacher who characterizes without knowledge beyond their own sphere, leaves students paralyzed, discouraged, maybe even stopping them forever.

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The Little Things

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Aug 15, 2025

The motion light burned out just as I was pulling under the carport. Would I be able to get up there with a ladder, remove it and find a replacement for a 20-year-old light? The

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Momentitos

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Jun 27, 2025

A crash of thunder set me straight up, in time to see the lightening fill my little cabin bedroom. That was close. What time is it, anyway? The blackened sky hid the usual sunrise. The

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While it is Still Here

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • Jun 05, 2025

How can I possibly be sitting outside at 7:29 p.m. on a June evening and not be inhaling bugs? I get that we lack bugs because we lack rain, but the grasses are green, the

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Double your Pleasure, Double your Fun

Double your Pleasure, Double your Fun

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  • Janet Kurtz
  • May 10, 2025

People of a certain age will be able to finish these phrases and likely be able to sing the jingle. This might bring a smile from childhood days or a blank look, depending on one’s

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