Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 6 pm, Book Passage, Corte Madera, free! As a fellow longtime whitewater raft guide, I share Bridget’s love for rivers and appreciate how moving water can teach us and heal us. I’m thrilled that Bridget asked me to join her in conversation for...
Thursday, July 17th, 2025, 6pm, Book Passage, Corte Madera, free! For young people it can be easy to be idealistic and devote ourselves to art. Then reality — and responsibilities — set in. As a friend said to me shortly after we graduated from college, “Life costs...
This four-day seminar has opened the gates to aspiring and working travel writers and photographers for three decades. Shapiro attended the first conference in 1992 and went on to write for the San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post and National Geographic. Beyond...
In 2021, a colleague asked if I’d like to interview Goodall about her Trees for Jane initiative and I leapt at the chance. The best part of this interview may have been hearing about a tree Jane loved when she was a child. She spoke to me from the home her family has...
In October, 2018, my wife and I joined a group of trekkers led by Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the son of Tenzing Norgay, who in 1953 was the first person (along with Ed Hillary) to reach the top of Mount Everest. For our trek in the Kingdom of Mustang, which borders...
