Jan Mireles Larson
Jan Mireles Larson is a professor emeritus and the former Department Chair of the Communication + Journalism Department at University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire.
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February 5, 2025
In the company of women: Celebrating the power of female friendships
The roots of many female friendships are strong and can run deep. They certainly do for writer Jan Mireles Larson of Eau Claire. She shared a story about being in ...
August 22, 2023
‘Shifting gears for 50 years’: Friends recreate bike ride to support cancer research
Two Wisconsin teens in search of adventure in July 1973 rode their 10-speed bikes from Antigo, Wisconsin through Minnesota, to the Canadian border and back. Fifty years later, they reprised ...
December 21, 2022
PEEF the bear: Home for Christmas
Parents will go to great lengths to make sure their kids have the perfect Christmas. Parents like Jan Larson of Eau Claire, who tells us about the quest she went ...
April 19, 2022
‘Community gratitude’: Lessons learned on the road to cancer recovery
Taking notice and being thankful for the family and community we have around us often occurs when we’re facing our most difficult circumstances. Jan Larson brings us an essay about ...
December 21, 2021
Kitchen Dance: A Parent’s Legacy
Have you ever been at a wedding and caught a glimpse of your parents slow dancing? Maybe you marveled…or maybe you cringed, but I’m willing to bet you felt…something. Jan ...
May 6, 2021
A Mother’s Voice: A Lifetime Of Reading With The Kids
A mother’s voice can wrap us in warm blankets. It can guide gently or yank us back from the cliff. And sometimes it can take us to places we only ...
April 9, 2020
Faith, HOPE and Love: Anticipating A Better Tomorrow While Safer At Home
People are using a lot of coping mechanisms to get through these days. For writer Jan Larson, it’s hope, faith, and love. == Today, March 24th, is my birthday. I ...
April 19, 2019
Filling The Church With Song For Over 80 Years
For nearly eight decades, one Wisconsin farm girl has followed the music along the back roads of the bluffs high above the banks of the Mississippi. As the sun rises on ...
January 17, 2018
See Me
Most days, I wake up and I’m just me, Jan… a wife with a loving husband, a mom with three kids who alternately drive me crazy and supply the great ...
December 21, 2016