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First Congregational Church, Eau Claire, Wisconsin

Day 24 away from home. . . or. . . Back home again

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  • Janet E. Kurtz
  • Apr 06, 2020

  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

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Isabel Allende

Isabel Allende Writes

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  • Janet E. Kurtz
  • Mar 06, 2020

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 habit starting on January 8, 1981, when she wrote a

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Don Miguel Ruiz

The Year: 2020

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  • Janet E. Kurtz
  • Feb 27, 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. Heady. Barreling in at the end of the twenty-teens. A

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Father Donald, age 2

Día de Muertos – Remembering

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  • Janet E. Kurtz
  • Nov 05, 2019

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 personal doll. Woodrow teased and taunted him when not out

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Conga Line

Celebrating Hispanic Month

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  • Janet E. Kurtz
  • Oct 11, 2019

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 speaker has been chosen to commemorate a designated time frame

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Set up and decorating

Sugar Skull Weather

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  • Janet E. Kurtz
  • Oct 09, 2019

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 the gardens. The half-moon sheds long shadows through the forest.

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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

Monarchs in Mexico

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  • Janet E. Kurtz
  • Oct 03, 2019

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.  Last year, I had pondered too long and the trip

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Alberto and Robert on the boardwalk along the Mississippi River at the Crow Wing Park Town Site, 2019

The Sauerkraut and Salsa Life (Northern Shores; Southern Borders)

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  • Janet E. Kurtz
  • Sep 25, 2019

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 breeze into my upstairs room. How could summer already be

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