Dear Friends,

This is a letter.

Since the circumstances of my illness did not permit, it has been some years since I wrote my annual letter. This winter finds me in good health, enjoying a reprieve from what my psychiatrist calls one of her "worst cases of bipolar disease."

Wannabeinz/Zihuatanejo Connection is also enjoying a much needed recovery from the effects of 911.

Andrew Peacock: Merger of Hearts and Mind

Andrew, who has spent half his life in Mexico, was in Huautla nearly the same time as me.

Retired Canadian University instructor and anthropologist with a career in government project management, business consultation and fifteen years running a computer sales and training business in Canada, this is Andrew's second year assisting at Wannabeinz. Having made a committment to learn the business against the day I am again incapacitated, Andrew writes software to manage the Zihuatanejo Connection, with intentions to later upgrade the website. Andrew also devotes himself to running, kyacking, sailing, mountain biking, and gardening.

Businesses = employees department:
My mother said you knew you had a business if you had a lot of paperwork around. I measure mine in employees. I don't just have one maid (Betty has 14 years with me now,) now I have Miriam too. I don't send my laundry out, I have started a laundry service for a unmet need population: my clients. I have a mandadero (person to run my errands) cum gardener, my own (Jennifer you'll love this) groom -Igancio Mendiola, two administrators: Oscar Montero Gutzman and Luis Valle, real estate agent Carmen Nunez performing constant installations of clients into their vacation rentals, Jorje Luis the night watchman, and the essential Sam Muncy back in the States running the home office, .

Groom

The majority of these individuals were in dire circumstances. Understanding exactly what that feels like, it has given me great pleasure to pull them out of the pit.

In 1991 I said, "I want to make money with a computer and a phone. And such has become my life, fueling the dreams of others. I am able to subsidize a starving artist, I have given money for a family to build a dwelling, and paid to have a man's mouth rebuilt, I have capitalized a dairy, a taxi, a vacation rental property business, and in doing all this and innumerable other "good deeds", walking the same streets day after day, putting money into other's businesses, I have become a part of the mosaic of this little town, part of its comical history for which it is so famous. And most astonishing of all, instead of having been kicked out, dumped on, ostracized, or denigrated for my outrageously inappropriate acts while critically ill, I have been welcomed back into the fold with warmth and concern.

And for those in Z who don't know me personally, I am "the woman who rides a bike with macaws." And being known is the most critical part of living successfully in Mexico.

Having my beloved Pets Rocky and Lala

A two day trek from Z: Gurrero's #1 Product