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      "Love of learning is the guide of life"
      Kat Peters
      • May 14
      • 8 min

      "Love of learning is the guide of life"

      My address to the Eta of Indiana Chapter at Valparaiso University of the Phi Betta Kappa Society on May 13, 2022. A painting I made as an...
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      Company towns, racial tension, stereotypes, natural beauty, and resilience
      Kat Peters
      • Apr 25
      • 3 min

      Company towns, racial tension, stereotypes, natural beauty, and resilience

      5 things Gary, Indiana and Costa Rica have in common A view of the block where Andrew Means had a contractor company that built quality...
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      5 things I learned in Costa Rica that serve me as a mother
      Kat Peters
      • Apr 10
      • 5 min

      5 things I learned in Costa Rica that serve me as a mother

      As I look over this list, I see that it resonates with advice a Costa Rican gave me, which I come back to, often: back to basics. Parts...
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      Food deserts: Korry Shepard of the Gary Historical Collective
      Kat Peters
      • Apr 4
      • 2 min

      Food deserts: Korry Shepard of the Gary Historical Collective

      In what I hope can be a regular conversation, I got to speak for a second time with Korry Shepard about his ideas for how to address food...
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      How to: Achieve the impossible
      Kat Peters
      • Mar 7
      • 7 min

      How to: Achieve the impossible

      Also known as: winter sowing One impossible thing I did was work with a five-year-old on a project that I cared about! I have been...
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      Chasing him down the beach
      Kat Peters
      • Mar 3
      • 4 min

      Chasing him down the beach

      This is real life, after all He's a "small guy," not a baby and not a big kid. My second-born says he's a "small guy" or a "small boy." ...
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      On history: with Gary historian Korry Shepard
      Kat Peters
      • Feb 22
      • 1 min

      On history: with Gary historian Korry Shepard

      I had the great good fortune to converse with this historian from Gary, Indiana, in February. 2022. Korry Shepard dropping knowledge at...
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      A tale of two rolls
      Kat Peters
      • Feb 7
      • 7 min

      A tale of two rolls

      The story and the recipes behind two enriched doughs, from South Dakota and Costa Rica My Grandma Jarratt's caramel rolls, being made by...
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      Why you're here: a letter to my sons
      Kat Peters
      • Feb 1
      • 6 min

      Why you're here: a letter to my sons

      From Crimea and Sweden to South Dakota to Nicaragua and Costa Rica My dear sons - Today in the Spanish class that I’m teaching at Indiana...
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      Costa Rica is not a f---ing paradise
      Kat Peters
      • Jan 24
      • 8 min

      Costa Rica is not a f---ing paradise

      An unpopular opinion Costa Rica's National Monument in the National Park in San José, commemorates Central America's ousting of foreign...
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      I'm an intercultural educator, Spanish professor, and former Assistant Director of study abroad in Costa Rica.

       

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