"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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Kat Peters
- Apr 24
- 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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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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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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Kat Peters
- Mar 6
- 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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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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Kat Peters
- Feb 21
- 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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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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Kat Peters
- Jan 31
- 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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Kat Peters
- Jan 23
- 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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