Jan Baumgartner
- Birthday
- August 02
- Bio
- Freelance writer and editor dividing my time between valiant efforts to escape the wrath of Maine and live fully in Mexico. Was madly in love, widowed young, now wondering and wandering but still finding time along the way to appreciate ~ and to laugh. "You don't write for them. You write for yourself. Always, everywhere, whenever. Writing is a message in a bottle.
And there is only a God Of Fair Beginnings." ~ Sashine
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “Thank you, all. It is
always heartening to know that
some
will read pieces
about…”
11:36PM - “Happy Thanksgiving,
Shiela. This will be my eighth
solo,
without John. Can't
say…”
5:31PM - “Thank you. I was feeling
a bit melancholy after posting
this
until I read your
la…”
4:57PM - “So few words never
packed such a punch. Poignant
and lovely.
To being home
~”
November 24, 2009 04:15PM - “As always, hysterically
funny. However, you went far
too easy
on the mime.”
November 23, 2009 06:22PM
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
&nbs… Read full post »
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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