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Janet Blaser has been a writer, editor and storyteller her entire life. Somehow she always ended up writing about great food, amazing places, fascinating people and unique events. Her work has appeared in numerous travel and expat publications as well as newspapers and magazines in and around Santa Cruz, California.
Originally from New York, she spent most of her adult life in Santa Cruz until moving to Mazatlán, Mexico in 2006. There she started M! Magazine, an English monthly publication, and also founded the Mercado Organico de Mazatlán, a weekly open-air market where local farmers sell their organically grown produce and products.
During an 18-month sabbatical in a beautiful, tiny rural town on the jungle coast in Nayarit, Mexico, Jane
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Janet Blaser I'm always inspired by really well-written books. I want to be captured by the characters, the story, the words, by page 10 - if not sooner. I don't k…moreI'm always inspired by really well-written books. I want to be captured by the characters, the story, the words, by page 10 - if not sooner. I don't keep every book I read; only those that I love, that I can't wait to get back to each night, that make me laugh out loud or cause me to pause and consider, remain with me. In fact, I have a handful of books I have re-read 10+ times that I never tire of. "Beautiful Ruins," by Jess Walter; "A Confederacy of Dunces," by John Kennedy Toole; "Jitterbug Perfume," by Tom Robbins; "A Widow For One Year," by John Irving; "My Antonia," by Willa Cather.
When it comes to the moment of putting words to paper, although some days I'm genuinely inspired, at other times it feels like my creative mind has left the building! I've found that putting myself in front of the proverbial page (although now it's on a screen) and just starting to work on whatever is supposed to be happening that day, will often lead me into a creative or at least focused place.
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Janet Blaser The idea for "Why We Left" came suddenly and unexpectedly. I was looking through my bookshelves for something to re-read, and pulled out an anthology …moreThe idea for "Why We Left" came suddenly and unexpectedly. I was looking through my bookshelves for something to re-read, and pulled out an anthology of women authors called "The Writer On Her Work," edite4d by Janet Sternburg. As I sat paging through the book, deciding if I wanted to read it again, I had one of those "Aha!" moments - and "Why We Left" was born. In the course of the 13 years I've lived in Mexico, I've met so many people who've also moved here, and we all have vastly different reasons and parameters for why and how we 're doing what we're doing. I figured if that was interesting to me, it was probably interesting to others, both folks who wanted to move to Mexico, and those who had.(less)
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“Hola & hello! I'm happy to answer any questions you might have - about the book or moving to Mexico.”
Janet Blaser, Why We Left An Anthology of American Women Expats

“This is the best part of México. You and your things are safe if you do not make yourself a target. Tipping helps, but most people are honest. They’re not constantly thinking about how to rip others off. Frequently they seem morally superior to most Americans, albeit less educated and less crammed full of propaganda; but also devoid of the self-help books and organized religions that seem to perpetuate the belief that we can’t be good on our own.”
Janet Blaser, Why We Left An Anthology of American Women Expats

“What is much truer is that we all wake up different. I wake up as a different person than who I was the night before. Last night I finished a book that opened my mind in a way it had never been opened before. Last night no coatimundi woke me. Last night the earth rotated to give me a new and unique relationship with the sun and the moon this morning. The sky shyly offers another glimpse of herself to me.”
Janet Blaser, Why We Left An Anthology of American Women Expats

“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played remain but a place of passage. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.”
W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence

“If you were born to be a flood, you cannot insult Heaven by insisting you are a drought.”
Luis Alberto Urrea, Queen of America

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