"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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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
- Feb 21, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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, 2022
- 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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Kat Peters
- Dec 6, 2021
- 8 min
More than money
When we give money, we are saying that the world of money is what we value. A few valuable things that aren't money: notes from your...
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Kat Peters
- Nov 8, 2021
- 6 min
The Trip Down: Managua - The ridiculousness of helplessness
Looking back on my journey through Mexico and Central America, Part V. This photo was taken a whole year after the post that I am...
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Kat Peters
- Nov 1, 2021
- 5 min
The Trip Down: Managua - A celebration of life
Looking back on my journey through Mexico and Central America, Part IV. With my beloved host family (just missing Jorge) in the inner...
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Kat Peters
- Oct 25, 2021
- 5 min
The Trip Down: "Hopping Tezra"
Looking back on my journey through Mexico and Central America, Part III. Tezra (left) and me, with my trusty backpack in Tegucigalpa. ...
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Kat Peters
- Oct 11, 2021
- 5 min
The trip down: "DF"
Looking back on my journey through Mexico and Central America: Part I. As I post this, today (October 11, 2021) is Indigenous People's...
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Kat Peters
- Sep 9, 2021
- 8 min
The cutting edge in coffee
A better future is within reach, and one local coffee roaster is leading the way through the direct purchase of high quality specialty...
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Kat Peters
- Aug 9, 2021
- 8 min
Una buena suegra
A tribute to my mother-in-law for Costa Rican Mother’s Day, August 15, 2021. Mothers-in-law might have a bad reputation, except for in...
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Kat Peters
- Aug 2, 2021
- 2 min
New Backwater is turning 1!
My first post on New Backwater was on August 8, 2020. On this last week of the first year, I look back, and look ahead. Soooo many...
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Kat Peters
- Jul 12, 2021
- 7 min
Si Dios quiere / God willing
I have learned to accept some uncertainty, but can it all be chalked up to God’s will? Our family vacationed “out West” for a couple of...
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Kat Peters
- May 31, 2021
- 4 min
Learning Cycle: Reading Things
Need a road map? Pick up some reading on your intended topic in order to help you find your way. Finding his way with an actual map....
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Kat Peters
- May 8, 2021
- 12 min
Notice, Connect, Find Joy: Costa Rica-US Migratory Birds (transcript)
Find the video transcript, full credits, and extra resources for helping you identify and protect migratory birds in your community....
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Kat Peters
- May 3, 2021
- 4 min
I return to the place where I was born
I wonder which place migratory birds consider home. I wonder if they don’t even think of the two places as separate. Dipping my feet in...
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