WHERE'S JUANA?
Jan Baumgartner
- Location
- Limbo
- Birthday
- August 02
- Company
- only if you can make me laugh
- Bio
- A native Californian, Jan Baumgartner is a writer and book editor dividing her time between Maine, Mexico, and California. Her essays on Mexico are included in the new anthology, Solamente en San Miguel Volume II (Parroquia Press, Nov. 2010), and Lady Jane Miscellany (San Francisco Bay Press, 2009). She is a frequent contributor to Banderas News in Puerto Vallarta, OpEdNews.com, and Scoop New Zealand. Her background includes scriptwriting, comedy writing for the No. California Emmy Awards, and travel writing for The New York Times. She has worked as a grant writer for the non-profit sector in the fields of academia, AIDS, and wildlife conservation for NGO's in the U.S. and Africa. She is working on a memoir about her husband's death from ALS and how travels in Africa became one of her greatest sources of inspiration. "There came a time when the risk to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom." ~Anais Nin. Or on a lighter note: "Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon." ~Woody Allen
MY RECENT POSTS
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November 24, 2009 03:57PM - The Beard
November 18, 2009 10:21PM - The Heart is a Fickle Little
Muscle
November 10, 2009 07:54PM - Outing Montezuma
July 27, 2009 03:55PM - San Miguel Copes with
Media-Fueled Alarm, Not H1N1
Virus
May 02, 2009 09:33PM
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Jan Baumgartner's Links
love.
My husband died at home in June of 2002 from ALS, Lou Gehrig's Disease. He was the greatest joy of my life. To have found it once was a miracle, to expect it twice...
This is a love story. And, a story of thanks.
When It Is Time To Go
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The Heart is a Fickle Little Muscle
"bleeding hearts"
So I’m sitting in my patio garden somewhere in Colonial Mexico, surrounded by dilapidated pink stone walls, crumbling in that old world charm sort of way, the carved cement fishes’ mouth regurgitating into the waters of the Italianate fountain,… Read full post »
Outing Montezuma
Photo by Esparta; courtesy Flickr
From the Fiction Pool ~ A Story from a Faraway Mountain Village … Read full post »
San Miguel Copes with Media-Fueled Alarm, Not H1N1 Virus
Reported from San Miguel de Allende, State of Guanajuato, Mexico
Rumors, Speculation and Fear: San Miguel de Allende Copes with the Spread of Media-Fueled Alarm, Not H1N1 Flu Virus
For the last several days, I have watched the systematic shutting down of this… Read full post »
The Sweet Low Down ~ Mexico Way
Zocalo: San Miguel de Allende
Photo: Lucy Nieto, Courtesy: Flickr
My Sacher Torte with Wesley
Dodging drums, the half-naked bodies and colorful feathered headdresses of the Concheros dancers celebrating in the zocalo, we hurriedly made/… Read full post »
Lupita Checking Out: Day of the Dead & The Scorpion Queen
A Fiction Story from Mexico ~
Photo courtesy: MiMundo.org @ Flickr
Not even the sound of mariachis serenading a wedding posada along her street got her to run up to the roof terrace where before, she would breathe in the lively music and the energy of the revelers… Read full post »
Regarding Mexico: Biased News, Half-Truths Fuel Paranoia
photo courtesy: Joven_60 @ Flickr
Regarding Mexico: Biased News, Half-Truths and Fear Mongering Fuel Paranoia of All Things South of the Border
Not the Whole Story
The U.S. media and federal government have stirred up a toxic cauldron media blitz that has been force-feeding… Read full post »
A Day in Mexico
photo credit: MurrayJ3/Flickr … Read full post »
Perhaps this already exists; God knows I’ve been out of the loop for a long time. But why aren’t there “professional daters” – a surrogate who can step in before an actual date, test the waters, ask pertinent questions, demand to see current medical records, admini/… Read full post »
Gone Coastal: From Guadalajara to Barra with No Reservations
Reflections of a Barefoot Wanderer
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Mexican Milagros ~ Part 2
A Barking Man, a Parrot who thinks it’s a Rooster, Drama Cat, Origins of Laughter, Beginnings and Endings, Marking Time by Church Bells
A Barking Man and a Parrot who thinks it’s a Rooster
Dog barking in San Miguel de Allende is as incessant as the church bells. The town/… Read full post »
Maine to Mexico
Getting here from there is nothing short of a milagro. Getting anywhere from Maine is a test in patience, resilience, and a strip search of your sanity. One might call it Sanity Profiling; if you have any trace of it left as you flee the remoteness and bitter cold, you will… Read full post »
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