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Why Time Flies: An inquiry into why time feels like it accelerates as we get older, Saturday Evening Post, Jan-Feb 2025

Why Time Flies: An inquiry into why time feels like it accelerates as we get older, Saturday Evening Post, Jan-Feb 2025

by Michael Shapiro | May 1, 2025 | Blog, Books, Interviews, Stories

We all feel it, whether we’re 30 or 60 or 90: Time feels like it’s speeding up each year. As the Grateful Dead sing in “The Music Never Stopped” … “Lord the band kept us so busy. We forgot about the time.” Yes, time flies when...
Journey Toward Everest: Trekking with the son of Tenzing Norgay to Everest Base Camp, Saturday Evening Post, Jan-Feb 2024

Journey Toward Everest: Trekking with the son of Tenzing Norgay to Everest Base Camp, Saturday Evening Post, Jan-Feb 2024

by Michael Shapiro | Jul 23, 2024 | Blog, Environment, Sports, Stories, Travel

In 2018, my wife Jackie and I had the privilege and pleasure of trekking with Jamling Tenzing to Nepal’s Mustang region near Tibet. In 2023, Jamling invited us to share in the celebration of the 70th anniversary of the 1953 ascent of Everest. His father Tenzing...
River Rights Gone Wrong, California water resources a source of conflict, Sierra magazine, Spring 2023

River Rights Gone Wrong, California water resources a source of conflict, Sierra magazine, Spring 2023

by Michael Shapiro | Mar 19, 2023 | Blog, Environment, Stories

Sierra, the country’s leading environmental magazine, has a front-of-the-book section called Notes from Here and There that’s akin to the New Yorker’s Talk of the Town. It’s an ideal venue for spotlighting personal views on the environment, not...
Old Crow Medicine Show’s catalog goes deeper than ‘Wagon Wheel’ – Press Democrat, July 8, 2022

Old Crow Medicine Show’s catalog goes deeper than ‘Wagon Wheel’ – Press Democrat, July 8, 2022

by Michael Shapiro | May 7, 2022 | Blog, Interviews, Music, Stories

Most editors don’t mind if you write a bit longer than assigned. I was asked to write 900 to 1,000 words about Old Crow Medicine Show for The Press Democrat, so it would have been fine, for example, to submit 1,100 words. Yet my interview with bandleader Ketch...
Fran Lebowitz doesn’t care what you think, Press Democrat, Feb. 10, 2022

Fran Lebowitz doesn’t care what you think, Press Democrat, Feb. 10, 2022

by Michael Shapiro | Feb 17, 2022 | Blog, Interviews, Stories

As I prepared to interview Fran Lebowitz, my friend and colleague Tim Cahill told me that she’d appeared on the cover of Outside magazine. This surprised me so I did a bit of digging and ended up writing this sidebar to accompany my story — click here for...
National Geographic, September 2021: Jane Goodall joins campaign to plant a trillion trees by 2030

National Geographic, September 2021: Jane Goodall joins campaign to plant a trillion trees by 2030

by Admin | Jan 13, 2022 | Blog, Environment, Interviews, Stories

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...
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Michael Shapiro

Recent Posts

  • A conversation with Bridget Crocker, author of the new book, The River’s Daughter
  • A conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of the new book, Art Above Everything
  • Why Time Flies: An inquiry into why time feels like it accelerates as we get older, Saturday Evening Post, Jan-Feb 2025
  • Climber with colon cancer seeks to summit Half Dome to raise awareness for screening, Press Democrat, Aug. 1, 2024
  • Journey Toward Everest: Trekking with the son of Tenzing Norgay to Everest Base Camp, Saturday Evening Post, Jan-Feb 2024
  • Lukas Nelson: Don’t ask him about his famous father, Press Democrat, Feb 2024
  • River Rights Gone Wrong, California water resources a source of conflict, Sierra magazine, Spring 2023

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