by Michael Shapiro | May 1, 2018 | Blog, Books, Interviews, Literature, Stories, Travel
I’ve long felt a kinship with Wales, perhaps because it’s where one of my favorite writers, Jan Morris, lives. Recently I had the chance to stay overnight and tour Dylan Thomas’s boyhood home in Swansea. Then I visited his other homes in Laugharne...
by Michael Shapiro | Apr 15, 2018 | Blog, Interviews, Music, Stories
Sometimes a story comes along that breaks your heart before you start interviewing. And then when you get to know the subjects it becomes even more wrenching yet at the same time uplifting. The story of aspiring musician Bernie Dalton, who refused to let the loss of...
by Michael Shapiro | Apr 9, 2018 | Blog, Books, Food, Interviews, Stories, Travel
There’s nothing better than an editor asking you to go to a city you love and find the best places for food, wine, beer and chocolate. I traveled there last year, stopped briefly (for 2 hours, which is fast) at Powell’s City of Books, then got to work...
by Michael Shapiro | Mar 9, 2018 | Blog, Food, Interviews, Stories, Travel
Last fall I had the pleasure of spending 90 minutes with SingleThread chef and owner Kyle Connaughton at the outstanding Healdsburg restaurant he and his wife Katina Connaughton opened just over a year ago. Three weeks after the interview, I took my wife there for...
by Michael Shapiro | Jan 9, 2018 | Blog, Interviews, Stories, Travel
The opportunity to write for the oldest magazine in the USA about a topic I’m passionate about came together in the following story about the state of our oceans. Appallingly we treat as oceans mostly as sources of food, transport and recreation, and we use it...
