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Suzanne L. Bunkers 

Distinguished Faculty Scholar 2008

 

   

Welcome to my web pages, last updated on 5 May 2008

  Study and Travel in Italy 2009

Best Wishes to the 2008 College Grads!


 

Above:  Diaries of Girls and Women: a Midwestern American Sampler (University of Wisconsin Press). For details, click on: Diaries of Girls and Women    Here is a link to the book's Introduction  

See Teresa Pitman's essay,

"Keeping a Journal" in Today's Parent Magazine  June 2003

LINKS:  

Ch. 1 of Good Earth, Black Soil (published in 1981) 

Luxembourg: The Grand Duchy (2005) pdf (large file)

Clairefontaine Abbey and Chapel (on border of Luxembourg and Belgium)

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Click to read my essay, "Reflections of Luxembourg in the Midwestern U.S."

Quick Links

Special Friends

Minnesota State University Home page

 Department of English Home page

What I've Learned by Studying Diaries

 

"Keep your values positive because they become your destiny."   --Mahatma Gandhi

Click on  Blueroad Press

Stardust and Fate: The Blueroad Reader

"John Gaterud edits collection of prose, poetry 'from the road'" --  Special to the Mankato Free Press by Ron Gower

Above: the valley as viewed from the top of Bourscheid Castle near Feulen, Luxembourg.  If you would like to read my essay about Luxembourgers' immigration to the United States, click on this link:  Luxembourg 

Above:  View of Luxembourg City's Grund (Photo by Suzanne Bunkers)

 

Above:  my favorite photograph of the ruins of the Roman Forum, taken after walking through the ruins on that trip. (Photo by Suzanne Bunkers)

 

The Wisdom of Prevention

Deal with the difficult,
While it is still easy.
Solve large problems
When they are still small.
Preventing large problems
By taking small steps
Is easier than solving them.
Therefore, the Tao person
Anticipates and lives wisely.
By small actions
Accomplishing great things.
-- Tao 67

 

 

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Some years ago, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg commissioned a sculpture that stands outside the United Nations Building in New York City.  The purpose of the sculpture is to promote world peace.   In 1994, Suzanne and Rachel Bunkers visited the United Nations and saw the "No War" sculpture.

Above: KiKiDee, Emily, Lucy

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Above: Statue of Our Lady of Consolation in the parish church of Waldbredimus, Luxembourg