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Blog name: one step closer
Location: Milwaukee
About me: http://laurafern.wordpress.com

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Average rating of my blogs: 5.0
Average rating of my Talkbacks: 4.9
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Recent blog entries
 
 Travel & Visitors Guide - Sunday
 Looking ahead in West Texas
  Almost two years ago my husband and I found out that his immigrant visa interview had been scheduled at the U.S. Consulate in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, just across the border with El Paso, Texas. We had been waiting for the interview for more than a year, so we were excited, but also terrified. My...
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 Travel & Visitors Guide - May 8, 2008
 cooking adventures
 On those days when I wish I could abandon responsibility for life as a vagabond, cooking international food helps me focus my energies on something productive, and hopefully, tasty. Picking up some obscure herbs or sauces at the Lanexang Asian grocery or finding a rare mamey fruit at Supermercado...
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 Travel & Visitors Guide - May 6, 2008
 Hiking El Rancho
  My husband was born in a beautiful and impoverished settlement in the hills of rural Puebla, Mexico. Several years ago I had the opportunity to visit his rustic birthplace, a location he usually refers to as "el rancho." I knew his family had never owned or lived on a "ranch"...
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 Travel & Visitors Guide - May 5, 2008
 Christmas in a small, Mexican town
  I am a lifelong Milwaukeean, raised in Elm Grove, educated in Madison, now a happy homeowner on Milwaukee's south side. My husband is from Puebla, Mexico. He came to the U.S. to live and work as a young man, and we met and married nearly four years ago. At the time we met I was infatuated with ...
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Recent Talkbacks
 
 Article - May 6, 2008
 A $2,250 blog
 I have thought about blogging on onmilwaukee.com in the past but apparently d...
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 Article - April 17, 2008
 Jenny, this poem's for you
 This is great. As a kid I knew more than a few Jennys, one Jennie, even a Jen...
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 Article - April 1, 2008
 Channel 4 resorts to Gousha cardboard cutout on 6 p.m. anchor desk
 April Fools kids, April Fools... :)
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 Article - March 14, 2008
 Banana f---ing smoothie: Kids and swearing, take 2
 Hahahhahaahaha! Thanks for making me smile!
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 Article - Dec. 14, 2007
 Make a (restaurant) list and check it twice
 I hope you love Jackson Grill! It's so wonderful, from the tiny kitschy dinin...
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