I actually felt a bit queasy the morning of the party. I just had to look at the costume I was wearing on Saturday night and my stomach did a little somersault.  Having spent 38 years as a Jehovah´s Witness and never having celebrated Halloween, putting on a costume was out of my comfort zone. However, wearing the costume I had […]

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I am often asked how I work and live in Mexico the majority of the year. I meet tourists on the bus or in town and frequently help them out with some Spanish translation or directions. As I speak with them, they are usually in awe that I get to hang out in the sun while they have […]

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It really has been quite a year for everybody. Weather has been wonky around the globe. Right now, many of my friends in Western Canada and the US are in the deepest freeze they’ve ever seen with snow up to their knees. The economic situation is in chaos and it has only just begun. The ramifications of what is […]

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Kim Baird was just 29 years old when she was elected the head of the Tsawwassen First Nation Indian Band. She became one of the youngest and one of the few female Indian chiefs in Canada. I recently read about Kim and was incredibly inspired by her story.  I wanted to share today what I learned from a […]

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“You’re out of your mind!” There was a time when I would have thought that comment was an insult - today I think of it as a compliment. I need to be “OUT” of my mind if I am going to accomplish what I want to do. 
The moment we let our Conscious Mind rule our lives, we […]

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My last newsletter was written as I was heading down to Phoenix.  Almost a month later, I am writing on the last leg of the flight back to Vancouver.  It’s been a very busy month, a lot has been accomplished and I am officially a year older than the last time I wrote.
I got to […]

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The other day while speaking to my dear friend Peter about what was happening in my life, he used a term that caught my attention. He said, “the issue Jan is IJR.” I replied with “what the heck is IJR”? I thought maybe I had missed a new technology term while in Mexico. Quite simply, IJR stands for “Is […]

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The hill up to my friend Monique’s home, where I am currently staying, is long and steep. The first couple of weeks here, I never made it more than a quarter of the way up the hill before my heart was racing and I was out of breath. Then one day I decided to stop and take a […]

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As I sit at the airport about to leave Mazatlan, I am definitely filled with gratitude mingled with a touch of sadness.  I can’t believe that it was almost 6 months ago that Greg and I arrived, white-skinned and tired!  Today I am leaving brown-skinned with a far more laid-back approach to life.  It has been such […]

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I remember when last December I told you that I was moving to Mexico, I wrote that Spirit would lead and I would follow.  I had visions of days sun tanning by the pool, reading delightful books, learning my Tai Chi and sipping some exotic drink.  A sabbatical in the sun…how appealing!
I can barely stop […]

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