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Michael Shapiro 2017 Sonoma County TEDx talk in Santa Rosa, Calif.

Michael Shapiro 2017 Sonoma County TEDx talk in Santa Rosa, Calif.

by Michael Shapiro | Aug 1, 2019 | Blog, Featured

Travel writer and photographer Michael Shapiro takes you from Ireland to Guatemala, from Kenya to Ecuador, and talks about how meeting people all over the world helps build bridges and shatter expectations. This talk was given at the 2017 Sonoma County TEDx event in...
Boys of Winter: Playing baseball with my heroes at SF Giants fantasy camp, Lexus magazine

Boys of Winter: Playing baseball with my heroes at SF Giants fantasy camp, Lexus magazine

by Michael Shapiro | Mar 27, 2019 | Blog, Sports, Stories, Travel

Back in 2008, I received a dream assignment from a gorgeously designed magazine called Lexus that’s read by more than 1 million Lexus drivers in North America. The editor asked if I’d spend a week in January playing baseball at San Francisco Giants fantasy...
Once in a Lifetime: Visiting Bruegel in Vienna with my mom, Perceptive Travel, Feb. 2019

Once in a Lifetime: Visiting Bruegel in Vienna with my mom, Perceptive Travel, Feb. 2019

by Michael Shapiro | Feb 1, 2019 | Blog, Stories, Travel

In November 2018, my mom saw a story in Art News about the first true Pieter Bruegel the Elder exhibtion ever, to be held at the Kunsthistoriches art museum in Vienna. She asked if I wanted to make a trip to Austria and I said I’d love to but had a book deadline...
A Farming Renaissance in Puerto Rico, Inspirato magazine, Winter 2019

A Farming Renaissance in Puerto Rico, Inspirato magazine, Winter 2019

by Michael Shapiro | Jan 10, 2019 | Blog, Food, Interviews, Stories, Travel

Last September, a year after Hurricane Maria devastated the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico, I was sent to the island to report a story about how some farmers were shifting from export crops to growing food for local people. I met some savvy, organic, badass farmers,...
Interview: Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, The Sun, July 2018

Interview: Oceanographer Sylvia Earle, The Sun, July 2018

by Michael Shapiro | Jul 1, 2018 | Blog, Interviews, Stories, Travel

Dr. Sylvia Earle has been one of my heroes since I saw the 2014 documentary “Mission Blue” about her tireless work on behalf of the oceans that sustain us. I had the privilege of interviewing her for my Saturday Evening Post story, “Oceans on the...
Washington Post: Dylan Thomas’s Wales

Washington Post: Dylan Thomas’s Wales

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...
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Recent Posts

  • National Geographic, December 2020: In remote Nepal, new roads bring opportunity and perils
  • National Geographic, November 2020: How the mystique of Wales gave strength to a legendary writer
  • Essay: A Month of Sundays, The Bold Italic, June 11, 2020
  • The Press Democrat, Feb. 20, 2020: Sarah McLachlan reflects on making music and giving back
  • Kauai Garden Island, Jan. 2, 2020: Surviving a Rogue Wave
  • Sierra magazine, June 2020: The Case Against Cruising. Proposed legislation seeks to clean up an environmental pariah
  • The Press Democrat, July 1, 2020: ‘California Rocks’ at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art shows the heyday of rock ’n’ roll

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