Butterfly in the City: A Good Life in Costa Rica
Jo (Josephine) Stuart grew up in the village of Mayville, New York, and from the time she knew the alphabet, wanted to be a writer, preferably a journalist.  But, as usual, life happens while you are planning. Besides marriage and motherhood there were numerous jobs including registering purebred goats in Ipswich, Mass., starting a pizza business in Majorca, running Keno in Lake Tahoe, being the entire staff of writers for a stamp magazine, writing women’s medical news for a public relations company, an advertising copywriter and teaching Anthropology.   Upon her retirement as the director of the International House, a residence for foreign and American college students, she began looking for a new experience, and somewhere she could live simply and within a limited budget without owning anything.  After a couple of visits she chose Costa Rica, feeling comfortable in a country without an army and at home with the culture and the people.  She has lived in San Jose, Costa Rica for nearly twenty years and encourages other women to consider the move.